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Lately, there have been news almost weekly about people raving on about the superiority of the modern Finnish education system. Researchers, education ministry task forces and other leaders try to study and emulate our education system because of its supposed effectiveness.
I find this kind of intriguing, as it's obvious that any single educational system or platform doesn't fit each possible student with perfection as there are always outliers, but it's also amazing to hear how flabbergasted people old and young are when they get acquainted with how the school system is operated here, especially cats from North America. One of the more stark differences seems to be that in Finland teachers are very respected and it's percentually even harder to become one than a lawyer or a doctor.
Finland has been #1 or near the very top of the PISA test for students, usually followed by South Korea and Shanghai. It kind of also speaks about the humility of our students, teachers and ministers, that when we first took the number one PISA spot, pretty much everyone here thought it must be a mistake.
If you're interested in the subject or discussing it, telling about your own country's system compared to ours and what you make of this whole hulabaloo then be my guest.
Here are a few recent articles about the subject and a trailer for a documentary about the subject, it's a pretty interesting film, you can find a download for it on Google I'm sure.
