Why Education in Finland Works

AFT President Randi Weingarten visits schools in Finland to learn how they have ascended to the top in student achievement.

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[Hypercube9]

Part 1: Imagine 2 schools, similar in design with similar teachers: Fill 1 with blacks afraid of being shot, starving, afraid of going home, who think "the man" is trying to "keep them down". Fill the other with white suburbanites who have nothing to fear. The whites will do better!

Fear causes higher level thinking to diminish. People are reduced to their fight-or-flight instincts and learning becomes all but impossible. Whites are also usually read to MORE than blacks when they're young!

[BecomeB]

Discussion is always good, I surely want that and I would assume you do too? Now when I look at my earlier messages it was wrong(ironically) by me to use wrong at that text. I should have said "We don't want to" for example.

Anyways I hope you would have pointed that out instead of using it yourself too.

But I would more like to say 'your limit to what you are willing to give away' to be more accurate.

[Erkele]

Finland is SUPERNATION - BEST in EVERYTHING ... E V E R Y T H I N G ( and most beautiful nature is here too) ! ! ! !

[BecomeB]

I guess your asking originally why we won't be eager to take much more foreigners here. We also have system that every citizen have right to get pretty good money for example in case of joblessness etc. So taking foreigners here means we have to pay to them their living before they get job if they get one. Basically there is many problems right now caused by foreigners that we don't see it very wise to really support taking much more. So it kinda goes further than just education.

[BecomeB]

Do you understand that spending on teachers is spending on students. Or what you mean by spending on students?

Reason why we spend money on teachers paychecks is following. That creates competition of who get to be teacher which leads to best people available being teachers(Teacher being very good and wanted job, like doctor for example). That leads to students getting better education. Besides that it's important to keep class sizes relatively small(not too much students per teacher).

[imsolive89]

This woman has put up so many barriers to change . What a hypocrite

[Kalle Anka]

I'm still curious to hear if you have any proof that you spend more resources per student then us like you claimed. I know you spend more on teachers paychecks but do you actually spend more money on the students? Because if that is the case then i am not all correct by blaming the reason to be us having more students with more needs.

[Ronnyere Sena Vital]

It's good to see how they get engaged to do a wonderful job, How their political views are so different from other parts of the world, thei educational system is pretty good and should be copied by other countries, it is really fascination to see how it works, and works pretty well, in brazil the story is completely different we have one of the worst education system on earth, But I simply know the answer for this question, here in brazil you will never see an investment, there's only corruption

[Kalle Anka]

If you think that was bashing you have lived in your moms womb to long. Seriously i'm not insulting you i'm just claiming facts. My objective "more wrong" is a reply to you objective "wrong". If you didn't want this discussion don't introduce it by bring it in. I'm not saying we can take in everyone. I'm saying that my limit to what i am ready to share is much greater than what you are ready to share. Without any judgement.

[BecomeB]

And bashing that as somehow "more wrong" thing is irrational unless you claim to know some kind of objective morality.

Usually it's understood that morality is subjective. Even Sweden can't take all people in that try to come. In our case there is real risk that if we just take people in more than we can actually educate well enough to get a job they will end up begging in the streets or getting involved in criminal activity.