What makes education in Finland that good?

(Ana Luna Pedrero )

This reflection will explain about the text “What makes education in Finland that good”

why education in Finland shows excellent results in comparison with 43 others countries

even outperforming those who are the world powers and finally the differences between

this educational system and ours.

Going through the beginning of the text it provides very clear information about why

Finland shows excellent results, it springs directly from education policies set in motion

forty years ago.

Moreover, the text provides ten important characteristics to understand this system

highlighting their alternative pedagogic approach, rather than mere instructional

institutions. Another characteristic is the considerable independence of teachers in the

classroom to choose their preferred appropriate pedagogical methods. Political authorities

have seen education as the key to survive; education is free for all, there are not exams and

test and the management and leadership skills of local political authorities.

To end up, this text is a good contribution to open our eyes and see how far Chile is from a

good educational system; we need to focus beyond a free education and try to cover all this

aspects that Finland does. In my opinion the most important characteristic that we need to

have are the education policies, I hope that at the moment that Chile change this policies

and when political authorities see education as a right and not as a business we can have a

education as good as in Finland.