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Education: Finland vs. Norway

Postby Lootifer on Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:13 pm

I read a high level piece on a comparison between education in the US vs education in Finland. Obviously citing the much better results you seem to get in Finland. It was a fairly one-sided saying that Finland is great, US is dumb etc etc.

It did however raise one interesting point: They suggested that Norway had a similar system to the US, and showed similar results to the US. I find this far more interesting as I presume culturally speaking Norway and Finland are much more comparable than the US and FInland.

Saxi et. al. do you guys have any information or thoughts on this?

Original article:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/finla ... ld-2012-11
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Re: Education: Finland vs. Norway

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:06 pm

Finland`s education level is astounding.

Here is an example of the Finnish newsmedia:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/paper_review_planes_trains_and_trucks_in_the_spotlight/6907609

Note how they compare and contrast the differing stories from differing papers. The closest we have to that in Canada is the Utne Reader, which is 100% liberal, all the time.

End the bipolar media, end the education crisis.
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Re: Education: Finland vs. Norway

Postby betiko on Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:20 pm

Fins have the highest suicide rates in the world though. Live dumb live happy! :D
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Re: Education: Finland vs. Norway

Postby BigBallinStalin on Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:00 am

betiko wrote:Fins have the highest suicide rates in the world though. Live dumb live happy! :D


It's due to the burden of knowledge.
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Re: Education: Finland vs. Norway

Postby chang50 on Fri Nov 01, 2013 4:06 am

Lootifer wrote:I read a high level piece on a comparison between education in the US vs education in Finland. Obviously citing the much better results you seem to get in Finland. It was a fairly one-sided saying that Finland is great, US is dumb etc etc.

It did however raise one interesting point: They suggested that Norway had a similar system to the US, and showed similar results to the US. I find this far more interesting as I presume culturally speaking Norway and Finland are much more comparable than the US and FInland.

Saxi et. al. do you guys have any information or thoughts on this?

Original article:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/finla ... ld-2012-11


Maybe It Futt is not an exception in Norway :-s
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