Education in Finland

Why Finland’s education success?First of all, they know that education is

important.

Compulsory education

• 50% tax, 7~8% for education

• Enter school in 7, graduate at 16.

Absolute equality of education : No matter of age, family, gender, race, the original mother tongue, all have the right to education.

Ex: although Hong Kong students’ result on math test is 6 points higher then Finland, the difference between every school reaches 47%, Which Finland’s differences is only 5%.

The requirements for teachers• Certain standard for teachers, requires

professional quality, must have a master degree and pass the “teachers’ test”.

• Government give teachers lots of space for their teaching methods.

Importance of foreign languages • English is a required course form grade 1. Swedish is

required form grade 7, can also take French, German, or Italian as third language

In order to enhance foreign language learning ability, Finland’s foreign TV program will never be re-dub, there will only be subtitles.

Automatic learning

• They let kids learn what they want to learn; they believe learning is for meeting kids curiosity.

Finland's education system after the 1970s compared to the United States which has not seen much change within almost 40 years. 

This photo at left shows the how important they value reading.

There will be more resources and caring for the slower developed kids.

Schedule of school

Although we don’t understand Finnish, we can figure out there are 6 classes each day and varies of class. There are 12 classes (classify by the colors)

You should see this:

http://youtu.be/0__9s3A2pcA

Education in Taiwan

We are so good at math, why can’t we calculate (figure out) what’s wrong in our

education system? We defiantly know what’s wrong, and we defiantly can improve.