By Alfie Kohn
No Contest stands because the definitive critique of pageant. opposite to authorised knowledge, festival isn't easy to human nature; it poisons our relations and holds us again from doing our greatest. during this new version, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns we all into losers.
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