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The most important skill for 21st-century students is the discipline to say "no"

Can you code? Speak a second language? How high is your IQ?

There's much debate on what students need most to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. The challenges of automation, globalization, and political upheaval leave out the fact that we're living an age of information overload.

According to CNN's Fareed Zakaria, the one thing that children will need to learn is "intellectual discipline." The ability to recall facts (we have Google) and parrot popular arguments (the canon is dead) has become obsolete. Students need to wade through the noise, discern the facts, analyze perspectives, and develop their own expertise.

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