Berkal: Finnish Schools Aim for an 8 Out of 10, Not Perfection
Juha Berkal · Finland Aims for an 8, Not a 10, and That Changes Everything · Jan 30, 2024 · at 10:51
Juha Berkal, CEO of ONEiO, discusses the core philosophy of Finland's compulsory education system with Sean Weisbrot.
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“What the whole aim of Finnish and schooling system until people are 1516 is that you are brought on the same sort of, not on the highest level, highest performance, or yeah, but it sort of if the If the grading is from one to 10, the objective of the schooling system is that most it's successful when people are on eight, that's the goal. So it's not aiming to perfection. So if somebody really wants to go to 10, they must do something themselves. So the school is not aiming for that.”
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