Publish at March 19 2025 Updated March 19 2025
PISA ranks education systems according to scores in maths, science and reading, influencing policy, but limiting the value of education to measurable knowledge. Soft skills remain invisible. Yet schools cultivate them through exchanges and projects. To make the most of them, we need to make a collective effort towards a more human vision of education.
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