| Cobretti2 said: - Finland sucked at education - changed system and world ranking skyrocketed - secret sauce no homework - 3-4 a day at school only (20 hours a week) - no standardised testing, no multiple choice answers - encourage you to aim for what you want - all schools equal standard (as mostly free education and public) so rich kids and poor kids mix and become friends. meaning later in live rich kids will think twice before they screw their mates over |
In my opinion that video simplyfied things a bit and gave an overly positive image of finnish school system.
In regards to homework, there is homework, but not much.
At the end of upper secondary school/high school (in finnish lukio) there are nation wide tests that are the same for everyone during that year. They pretty much determine where you can go after that (university etc.) and those tests are not multiple choice tests, but proper tets where you have to know things and use your knowledge.
All schools are supposed to be more or less equal, but still some schools are better than others. However the differences between them are quite small.
That 20 hours/week is only true at the beginning, later on it gradually increases, but I guess its still less than in most other countries.
In recent years with the more right wing parliament, Finland has weakened the school system and the results are starting to show and will continue to show in the future. Higher education (university etc.) has also been weakened and the finnish parliament even stated that they want less people to go to universities and more people to start working earlier. High level of education has been a huge asset for Finland, but some people don´t seem to realize it :P
Those same political parties want to make our health care system more dependant on private healt care providers. Basicly giving tax payers money to big health care corporations.
