Yay! Finland!!! So fantastic! We should all follow your education philosophy! Maybe in 3 1/2 years we will get a competent administration that will know what to do.
And then there was my high school biology teacher who told me I asked too many questions because she only wanted to talk about what would be on the standardized test. If you encourage curiosity in kids and develop a love for learning, amazing what kids can do. Probably why Finland excels.
*Americans have to spend 10’s of K’s $’s for Ed to BECOME Dr’s. Then invest several YEARS to accumulate clientele wealthy enough to pay, traditionally HealthInsurance inflated, Bills.
Two reasons: theocratic knobs who want school to be about the Bible and MAGA; and selfish assholes who believe that *those people* don’t deserve quality schools (healthcare, daycare, food assistance, etc).
Not an accident. Finland shares a border w Russia. They saw a disengaged & poorly educated population as an economic and defense vulnerability. Two birds. Great ROI.
Finland doesn't just share a border with Russia, they used to be controlled by Russia. They successfully broke away from Russia during the Russian revolution, only to be invaded by the Soviet Union shortly after the start of WWII.
It is estimated that there are three million saunas in Finland, for a population of 5.5 million. Big companies and state institutions have their own saunas.
I’ve never been in a sauna but the sauna to human ratio sounds pleasant
And then it went woke and started dropping in PISA rankings again and again and again. People referring to the situation of 5 years ago as if it was the reality today are disingenuous. Source: I live here. That’s before we get to the outright lie of teachers getting paid as much as doctors.
In the context of schooling, things like ”student rights trump everything”. Phones can’t be confiscated (this is FINALLY being fixed), practically nobody ever gets their year failed entirely regardless of attendance and performance, etc
The social-democratic countries are the only TRUE "first-world" countries on this planet. Science, sanity, rationality, decency, see what you can do when you use these principles in government and society.
Would be really impressive if it didn’t hide the fact that Finland suffers from one of the highest rate of suicide and alcoholism per head of population than any other country in the world.
The American mentality. It's inclined to smallness, to meanness, to fear of consequence. To follow Finland would be to admit someone else was better. And if they're right about this what else might America be doing wrong? No, avoid the possibility of finding out.
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Why do people believe memes simply because they say something they agree with/like?
Unfortunately not America.
We,us,me you are failing in the US.
Because; Dumald++++++++Capitalism.*
*Americans have to spend 10’s of K’s $’s for Ed to BECOME Dr’s. Then invest several YEARS to accumulate clientele wealthy enough to pay, traditionally HealthInsurance inflated, Bills.
In short? Medicine in US? Is COMMODITY
Love 🇫🇮 ❤️ love ❤️ ❤️ it!!!
Our world NEEDS to be more Finnish.
Let me guess: instead of at least studying this the USA will actively try to tear it down?
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https://www.goodnewsfinland.com/articles/five-from-finland/2025/finland-happiest-country/
Freest country
It is estimated that there are three million saunas in Finland, for a population of 5.5 million. Big companies and state institutions have their own saunas.
I’ve never been in a sauna but the sauna to human ratio sounds pleasant
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https://finland.fi/life-society/bare-facts-of-the-sauna/
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Or drones?
Or well informed young adults?
Is creativity encouraged?
Can they innovate?