About six years ago I know the operation of the Finnish education system, which interested me because the children there get the best scores in the Pisa reports and because the education philosophy is much more like how I think children should be treated and how I think it must be the teaching that is still offered in Spain, which has not evolved too much in several decades, or at least not enough.
Yesterday, in the program "Saved", the always incisive Jordi Évole offered us an interesting comparison between our educational system and the Finnish. If you saw it, we can use this post to comment on it. If you did not see it, see it, please (you can see it here), because in addition to knowing how we should educate our children you will also realize that we live in a country with a rather mediocre political and social functioning (in colloquial Spanish it is said “ country of shit, or tambourine ”).
Equal opportunities
One of the things that attracts the most attention is that there in Finland all children have the same opportunities. And if they do not have them, the same educational system is responsible for trying to match them, offering training to parents so they can help their children at home. Here it is unthinkable. As I said a few days ago at the entrance where he said that it makes no sense that the children's duties are done by parents, those parents who do not know the language or who simply do not know, will not be able to help their children in the same way as parents can do it with more studies. And here, of course, nobody offers a course to parents who don't know how to help their children.
On the other hand, there are hardly any pay colleges there, almost all of them are public and all work well. Here is a joke, the rich do not put their children in the public or joking, in fact, nor do politicians who do nothing but modify the education system take them, turning the teaching of our children into a showcase to their policies or the result of their madnesses (without going any further, Mr. Wert is close to rolling it brown ... tell us to those of us who live in Catalonia).
No need to be killed to work in class
Another thing that attracts attention is that children have 45-minute classes, with fifteen breaks between them. Here they only stop for a little while. The rest of the classes go there sticky, being longer and at the risk of overwhelming the children. As also teachers in Finland are very trained and tremendously capable people, and as well as there they spend time teaching and not educating, because parents are supposed to educate them, time in the classroom sure is more productive than here, where they have to teach and educate at the same time.
But of course, for a child to be educated at school, he has to have someone of reference, someone to educate him, that's why they have the best possible people there: parents, and also educated parents. As the system has spent years and decades devoting many resources to educating their children, children reach adulthood as people who care about their children's education, people who love books, who frequently go to libraries, who They spend time with their children, etc. This, of course, cannot be achieved without great maternal and paternal casualties, and there you have them.
In Spain? Unlikely
As you can see in the video, Finnish education is hardly extrapolated to Spain, because that educational system makes sense in a well-educated and respectful society, where children are the most important, where their education is a basic pillar because they are the future. Here children are the least important (until you are not an adult they don't take you into account), classes are crowded, they don't stop making cuts in education, maternal and paternal leave is ridiculous and mothers and fathers who stay longer with their children they are seen as people who are left, who do not want to “perform”, the children end up in the nursery or with the grandmother, instead of with the parents, in the schools they end up having too standardized classes, being all the same, they try learn to read as soon as possible, instead of waiting for them to be motivated for it and work pushing the one who bothers because he doesn't know and pushing the one who bothers because he finds out too much.
And all this immersed in a social system where those who send more can do what they want with our taxes (I think it is not necessary to comment on the cases of corruption that are heard lately, and what we still do not know ...), where each party that comes to power, does and undoes at will, without probably having the means or studies to do it (politicians without a university degree, hey) and in which parents have little chance of actively participating in school, or because they cannot leave work to do so , or because in school an absurd secrecy is created that makes schools look more like jail centers than family centers where parents and teachers go to a.
What do you think?
Go, it's your turn, What do you think about the difference between Spain and Finland?
