Yes, all cultures have their own particular traits and customs. That being said, many nations in the world offer their young people a public education. A nation's public education, in turn, has a good deal to do with that particular country's means of operations; from customs to its economic system to its social programs and more.
Current so called reformers, and here I am especially calling out the privatizers, are constantly lambasting the American education system. One of their chief complaints is that we are falling behind such countries as those in Asia and Scandinavia among others.
Well, perhaps those so called reformers would be wise to heed the advice of one of these nations, Finland. As one Finnish teacher so aptly put it, "We pay teachers like our doctors, students enjoy over an hour of recess and there's no mandatory testing - the opposite of what America does."
So, in this day and age of high pressure testing in this country, maybe it's time we took a page out of the playbook of the Finns and examined what we are doing to our American education system.
Dick
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