What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

Re:What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? by gahahaha on Sunday March 02, 2008 @06:31AM (#127301)

I think the comments so far in this discussion are misguided in attributing the good school performance of Finnish pupils to some character trait of Finns. That's like saying blacks in America do worse in school because of black culture.

Finland has a great educational system. It's that simple. And that hard too. It takes decades to create a good educational system, and you can't do it with handing out more money or new laws.

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Re:What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? by shiranaihito on Sunday March 02, 2008 @12:15PM (#127435)

I agree.

Anyway, our educational system is pretty much uniformly great all the way to the end of upper-secondary school.

After that though, there are only a handful of good universities to attend.

It seems that among colleges etc, there are lots of really good choices in America.

For example I went to a polytechnic, "majored" in IT, and learned next to nothing about programming there.

Now I'm relatively far from being a Real Programmer (tm), but trying to slowly make my way towards being one.

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