This Is the Best Thing About the Finnish School System
By someone who went through 12 years of it.
The Finnish school system has been famous all over the world ever since the first PISA studies came out around the start of the new millennium and my home country was at the top of the list.
It seemed to come out of nowhere. How did the kids in this small country at the end of the world get this great of an education?
In the last two decades, there’s been a bit of a decline in our PISA results, especially compared to other OECD countries that have stepped up their game, but Finland has consistently stayed somewhere close to the top.
And that means there’s a lot of information about it in the media. Sometimes it’s accurate, sometimes it’s not, but in general, I agree the system works. However, it’s very different from what I see here in Argentina, or even Spain, where I used to live. And I guess compared to the United States, the differences would be considerable.
Social Democracy at Its Best
The Finnish school system is based on a lot of great ideas.
First of all, it has the goal of leveling kids from different backgrounds and with different abilities, to give everybody a fair shot at learning. It’s based on…
