> but I still think such a test can be a good starting point for a talk

Ah, a conversation. We'll have just the right generation for you

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaystartimes/4211545a6442.html

Curriculum change shifts emphasis from 'what' to 'how'

A controversial new national curriculum will teach pupils how to
hold a conversation or ask for help rather than remember facts,
historic dates or periodic tables

> just don't treat the answers as if it were an exam.

Mary Chamberlain, overseeing the project for the Education Ministry,
says that although people are "rattled" by the changes, "there's no use
(students) being little knowledge banks walking around on legs.

"We've got computers, we don't need people walking around with
them in their heads... People just have to get used to that."

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Teaching kids back to the Stone Age

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