A new front in the education wars is set to break out over whether schools should focus on skills such as problem solving over teaching facts and figures as the state government begins the biggest overhaul of the curriculum in a generation. Advocates of so-called soft skills such as critical thinking argue they are more relevant in an age when facts can be easily found on the internet, but opponents say hard knowledge is an essential foundation of higher-order thinking.

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