America's Competition Fetish Kills Creativity and Produces Human Sheep
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In the view of Margaret Heffernan, author of A Bigger Prize: Why Competition Isn't Everything, and How We Do Better, teaching competition from the earliest years produces adults who fail at creative thinking and generates a society where cheating is incentivized and people never learn to collaborate. In the following interview, she explains why this failure puts us all at risk.
By Lynn Parramore, ContributorAuthor and cultural theorist, 2015-06-03