Soft skills vs hard skills

Students and teachers focus on a single goal this month: preparing for academic testing.

Test season comes around every year, even though a growing number of parents are starting to recognize children should also be taught soft skills during the school day.

Having integrity, perseverance and problem-solving skills are examples of soft skills. These character traits are critical to success in the adult world, but are only incidentally taught in school, where hard skills rule. An unfortunate truth.