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Finland is like this— they allow kids to come to school and sort of pick their interests and follow those interests to develop skills by actually working on tha

Finland is like this— they allow kids to come to school and sort of pick their interests and follow those interests to develop skills by actually working on that craft/trade/subject in great detail. I think people would pursue knowledge if it was more customizable to allow kids to follow their passion.

kohanz 8y ago
Perhaps not the same, but reminds me of the Waldorf education philosophy [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education
- diogenescynic 8y ago
  I looked it up and it’s actually Finland I was taking about. Michael Moore did a good piece on it: https://youtu.be/XQ_agxK6fLs https://youtu.be/XQ_agxK6fLs
aqsalose 8y ago
While there no doubt has been great deal of changes in our schools since I was a kid (00s) and teachers have a great deal of freedom when it comes to planning how they teach, I'm fairly certain this kind utopian student freedom is not ... what happens. For example, Ministry of Education [1] provides a pdf of distribution of lesson hours (and if you are curious about the details, you can buy a digital version of the national curricula, which is a bit silly: such documents should be publicly distributed). Whatever the kids' true passion is, 6 lesson hours in a week are allocated for mathematics in grades 1-2. edit. There's a drought of suitable official documents available in English, but see this [2] helpful document by City of Helsinki Education Department from 2014. It describes the picture about the daily life in schools the Education Department wanted to present to foreigners. Granted, things may have changed in 4 years, and such official documents should be taken with a grain of salt, but I'm inclined to believe that mandatory classes in Swedish still include grammar lessons about possessive pronouns. [1] https://www.oph.fi/english/curricula_and_qualifications/basic_education https://www.oph.fi/english/curricula_and_qualifications/basi... [2] http://www.hel.fi/static/opev/virasto/opevsivuten/koulututuksi-en.pdf http://www.hel.fi/static/opev/virasto/opevsivuten/koulututuk...

kohanz 8y ago

Perhaps not the same, but reminds me of the Waldorf education philosophy [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

diogenescynic 8y ago
I looked it up and it’s actually Finland I was taking about. Michael Moore did a good piece on it: https://youtu.be/XQ_agxK6fLs https://youtu.be/XQ_agxK6fLs

aqsalose 8y ago

While there no doubt has been great deal of changes in our schools since I was a kid (00s) and teachers have a great deal of freedom when it comes to planning how they teach, I'm fairly certain this kind utopian student freedom is not ... what happens. For example, Ministry of Education [1] provides a pdf of distribution of lesson hours (and if you are curious about the details, you can buy a digital version of the national curricula, which is a bit silly: such documents should be publicly distributed). Whatever the kids' true passion is, 6 lesson hours in a week are allocated for mathematics in grades 1-2. edit. There's a drought of suitable official documents available in English, but see this [2] helpful document by City of Helsinki Education Department from 2014. It describes the picture about the daily life in schools the Education Department wanted to present to foreigners. Granted, things may have changed in 4 years, and such official documents should be taken with a grain of salt, but I'm inclined to believe that mandatory classes in Swedish still include grammar lessons about possessive pronouns. [1] https://www.oph.fi/english/curricula_and_qualifications/basic_education https://www.oph.fi/english/curricula_and_qualifications/basi... [2] http://www.hel.fi/static/opev/virasto/opevsivuten/koulututuksi-en.pdf http://www.hel.fi/static/opev/virasto/opevsivuten/koulututuk...