>>11082066I think this system is better because I was able to graduate highschool while never attending any classes. They gave me the freedom to stay at home for me to do my own shit. This gave me the freedom to pursue the interests that I had myself such as programming, learning chinese, japanese, english and higher mathematics.
In the US I would have been forced to take classes filled with annoying people that do anything and everything except focus on the subject matter as well as cram for tests instead of just focusing on the things I want to learn at the speed I wanted to learn.
I just took the final exams and graduated and then immediately went to university to double major in mathematics and computer science. I think the main reason why Finns do better than the rest of the world is that there is no fake "padding" more freedom to do whatever the fuck you want. Turns out if you don't force people then they will learn whatever subject they are interested in out of themselves.
I feel like students are MORE motivated because they haven't been forced to do something they don't want and thus don't associate "learning" with forced bullshit you don't care about.
The main difference in view on the education system as a child is that in Finland kids just do whatever they are interested in and when they grow up they pick a career that matches their interest. In the US kids are forced into lots of different things and then when they grow up they pick a career in whatever they found to be the easiest to do or what they perceive as being worth doing the most.
Americans DON'T pick what they are genuinely independently interested in. That is the main difference.
Finns aren't smarter than the rest of the world it's just that students doing what they genuinely love perform better than students doing something because they think it's easier or better pay/prestige.
Everyone doing Computer Science has been programming since they were a single digit years old for example.
