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can't watch this. It's shameful what our schools are doing.

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I say it's all that fiiiiine metal music.

Minute 44.30 dude is totally right about the german system.

As a Swede it's downright painful.

Damn youse guys! Damn youse guys to hell!

good lord this is interesting

could arguably be edited a bit tighter

I like the interviews with the older policy-makers, who put into context how their education system has been 30 years in the making,... and is still highly under development.

I wonder if the decline of monotheism in Finland has anything to do with the increased ability of the country as a whole to focus on quality education.

Here is a great relevant link:
http://videosift.com/video/What-motivates-us

kooooool mannnn

>> ^bamdrew:

good lord this is interesting
could arguably be edited a bit tighter


I'm not sure if this is the final cut of the documentary... It said version 7.4 so it might be a rough cut and that is why it isn't as tight and is a bit repetitive at times...

>> ^DerHasisttot:

I say it's all that fiiiiine metal music.


In stark contrast to that really irritating abstract "music" which kept popping up in the background of this video.

>> ^Janus:

>> ^DerHasisttot:
I say it's all that fiiiiine metal music.

In stark contrast to that really irritating abstract "music" which kept popping up in the background of this video.


I'ves sent this vid to a friend and he got headaches from the music.

I'm glad to see that the Fins abandoned their unpronounceable mother tongue and adopted English as their only language, seeing as how the American dude is speaking to 13 years old about education, their future and all.

>> ^9547bis:

I'm glad to see that the Fins abandoned their unpronounceable mother tongue and adopted English

english and swedish studies are compulsory for all
though swedish is unpopular, being a language only useful on the west coast

I was being sarcastic, to point out the fact that in most countries kids can't speak English for shit when they are 13 (or any second language for that matter).
I didn't know that Swedish was a Lingua Franca of the north, though. That could help explain a few things for me (like why the resistance movements were so multinational over there during WW2).

Finland's achievement really is impressive, outperforming not only Western countries, but also some of the Asian countries that normally outperform Western countries: http://www.vdare.com/images/121910_ss001c.png

I was looking for this to send to someone, but it's *dead now.

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