"There’s no poor people who did not deserve the fate of being poor."
“That is an unjust fate. Being so hard working, quick learning and being poor”.
Ouch, I was sleeping and barely working, or moving, although sometimes later on really struggling.
online.wsj.com
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Finnish educators believe they get better overall results by concentrating on weaker students rather than by pushing gifted students ahead of everyone else. The idea is that bright students can help average ones without harming their own progress.
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They dye their hair, love sarcasm and listen to rap and heavy metal. But by ninth grade they're way ahead in math, science and reading -- on track to keeping Finns among the world's most productive workers.
Despite the apparent simplicity of Finnish education, it would be tough to replicate in the U.S.
Another difference is financial. Each school year, the U.S. spends an average of $8,700 per student, while the Finns spend $7,500. Finland's high-tax government provides roughly equal per-pupil funding, unlike the disparities between Beverly Hills public schools, for example, and schools in poorer districts. The gap between Finland's best- and worst-performing schools was the smallest of any country in the PISA testing. The U.S. ranks about average.
Taking away the competition of getting into the "right schools" allows Finnish children to enjoy a less-pressured childhood. While many U.S. parents worry about enrolling their toddlers in academically oriented preschools, the Finns don't begin school until age 7, a year later than most U.S. first-graders.
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Howver, in really poor taxation and tax-evasive economies, there still have to be schools for at least the richest ones.
That is one reason I am so faschinated with Epsom and NZ, and their own style of "mob".
PS I just got this somewhat old computer of the worse brother of the brother of my littliest cousin (skipping the cross-generational cousin-gap), to finally boot both XP, Vista and Ubuntu, so I am forced to admit I did not, yet, read all of you PM..
ubuntu.com
"Computer technology enabled the service economy to be operate by a person with very little skills."
Ouch, getting Ubuntu to first boot Ubuntu, then ask if wants to boot VIsta, and then his old pirated XP, that took most of my skills.
First time I had to dive into the depths of Grub and the new Microsoft bootloader, plus their new ways of partitioning hard disks, not at all as it has been done, standardized, for 30 years.
I still do not understand why the MSFT new bootloader swithes to some graphic mode which lots of slightly old NVIDIA chipset do not understand (MSFT already sits smack in the middle of NVIDIA)
Debugging how Vista boots is difficult when the boot menues are totally invisible.
totally surreal jpg, the way those heads are positioned. |
