Education has been a broad debate topic in every country. We all care about having good education quality with no or less tuition. It is a very hard equation but is it possible? In her article “What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success” Anu Partanen showed a great example of a powerful education system in country which is smaller and with a much more homogeneous population than the United States.Anu Partanen originally from Finland and That’s gives us a hint to trust her. She is credible when she talks about the education in her home country,
To start Finland did not have that great education, but they had a dream and they were able to build one as the author said. “Finland’s dream was that we want to have a good public education …show more content…
And they are more academic with more education degrees. Also, all teachers must go through trainings to make sure they professional enough before being in classes. It is not easy to be a teacher and there are a lot of responsibility for that. It is a good point from the author to talk about this specific reason because the teacher is the head of success in the class. When I do not have a professional teacher, or when I have someone who do not really helpful and pushes me up, I usually struggle in the class and may be in the whole subject. I like also how they appreciate teachers and how they give them decent pay.
As a conclusion, I think Anu Partanen did a good job showing a great education system in a small and not very well known nation such as Finland. The author showed reasons that made Finland’s students taking the highest test scores in the world. Anu Partanen ended the article by saying “Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity”. I totally agree with her and I think it was very important topic that she handle it