Early Childhood Care and Education

A discussion on the importance of early childhood education for children’s success at school, for lifelong learning and their overall wellbeing, with four ex…
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“Finland’s educational system. Fascinating thing about three decades ago Finland has an educational system that is doing terribly and they look around and th…

13 thoughts on “Early Childhood Care and Education

  1. finish education system is hard to implement in other part of the world.
    The reasons are:
    1. Private schools make so much profit. Private schools in Australia even
    get subsidized by taxpayers money in Australia.
    Will Private Schools lobby allow themselves to become state sponsored
    schools?
    2. Schools are struggling to get even teachers with Bachelor degrees to
    teach Math and Science. Will they get enough man powers with Masters
    degrees?
    3. Combinely ,Standardized test such as SAT, ACT, TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, IELTS,
    NAPLAN etc are multi billions industry. Try removing them. Backlash would
    be enormous.

  2. I like to look at Scandinavia as a sort of experimental region, it is easy
    to see what works and what doesnt on such small scale.
    Its also amusing to look at Sweden which is using the american template for
    education and has fallen alot on the international rankings.
    In 2013, the Swedish gov even called a crisis meeting to curb the negative
    trend while at the same time finlanders who are neighbours have no such
    problems.

  3. I really think we should take notes from Finland. Really, my school is
    pitiful. It’s embarrassing now. I heard stories of the U.S. once being at
    the top, and now we’re all the way down in ranks as low as #16 in one
    subject and #23 and #25 in others. I really don’t think teachers should be
    saying “Oh, our methods works”. They’ve obviously proved their methods are
    more efficient than ours. Also, I think there should be other tests where
    you compare your scores during your last year in high school, just to give
    other countries who get a majority of their knowledge in their later years
    a chance. I can honestly say I’ve seen a significant rise in the skills of
    my classmates over these past 2 years. I’m now a junior.

  4. Well I wouldn’t have even guessed that Finland was this high on the
    ranking. I don’t even have a clue why this system is called so good, I mean
    we’re pretty much given the longest pauses ever and the learning pace is
    unbelievably slow all of the time.

    But the recent drop in the rankings for Finland is quite possibly because
    the attitude of this specific age group is not entirely on the “Alright, I
    can give it a shot.” level, and that results in them saying “Well, just
    fuck it.”. Sure I’m myself a part of it, and you can argue that I’m
    unbelievably lazy and also say the “Naah, I’ll do it later” but that’s a
    part of it, everyone says it (at some point). Despite that I rank quite
    high among the students in my year (Not a full 10 out of 10, but my average
    is more like 9,2 out of 10). If I were to compare the other “lazier”
    students to me (Oh and as I said I’m also lazy as hell, don’t take me wrong
    here), the difference would be that I actually care (sometimes… o.o) and
    am willing to learn more. It’s just not the educational system that can
    blow up, the people are also a part of the reason why it’s doing well or
    bad.

    I suppose people just aren’t that self-imposed anymore (Well I can’t really
    know if we ever were). I learn japanese on my free time, when I feel like
    it, and it doesn’t take any of my time away and is genuinely fun. You
    should find something like that too, which is actually fun and useful, it’s
    really rewarding I suggest that to everyone.

    The point is, it can be a long and painful fall from the top, unless we
    change our attitude.

    These are my thoughts on this matter, not that I can express it well, but I
    gave it a shot. Just a way to pass my holiday , eh?

  5. Mindblow! D= But then, I can see where their logic comes from, It is a lot
    easier to teach/train someone who is enthusiastic then just force someone
    to it, and just end up as the idiom goes “flog the dead horse”
    Even in High School/College I sort of noticed that too in person by person
    case

  6. so heres how it goes in my school: 25-30 kids in one classroom,its super
    hot,theres 1 teacher and people are loud and do not SHUT THE FUCK UP

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