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There are other types of schooling which are more tailored to the individual. You won’t find them in a public school though, with one teacher schooling 25-30 ki

by manmal 5y ago

There are other types of schooling which are more tailored to the individual. You won’t find them in a public school though, with one teacher schooling 25-30 kids. It’s just not possible to cater to every individual‘s needs in that context. The only way to get more individual schooling is to have well-off parents who send you to a school with smaller classes, and ideally with a more relaxed schedule, like Montessori (I personally find them a little cult-like, there are other approaches too). Or, get born in Finland or Sweden, they invest heavily into their public education system, and it shows.

bedobi 5y ago
Haha hate to break your bubble but I am born, raised and schooled in Sweden :) I don't live there anymore though, I left as soon as I could, can't stand the place, but that's kind of a side note, lol. Finland and Sweden's schooling systems are very, very different. I wouldn't have enjoyed the Finnish one either, just saying.
- gizmondo 5y ago
  It must be weird to read all the fetishization of Scandinavia here? :)
  - bedobi 5y ago
    For sure! It gets talked about every now and then, this one generated a bunch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886659
    - manmal 5y ago
      I‘m not fetishizing. There is lots of hard evidence that at least the Swedish model is superior to what eg Central European countries have. Our country sends delegations to Sweden to analyze what they are doing better, and maybe get inspired by that. Sorry for throwing Finland into the mix, I probably misremembered.
      - bedobi 5y ago
        Apologies, I didn't mean to say you were fetishizing, just that there's a lot of Scandinavia fetishizing on HN (and everywhere else for that matter) in general, haha
- manmal 5y ago
  You should have a look what public schooling looks like in most other countries, you‘d be surprised how good you had it. The fact that you dreaded school proves nothing.

by manmal 5y ago

bedobi 5y ago

Haha hate to break your bubble but I am born, raised and schooled in Sweden :) I don't live there anymore though, I left as soon as I could, can't stand the place, but that's kind of a side note, lol. Finland and Sweden's schooling systems are very, very different. I wouldn't have enjoyed the Finnish one either, just saying.

gizmondo 5y ago
It must be weird to read all the fetishization of Scandinavia here? :)
- bedobi 5y ago
  For sure! It gets talked about every now and then, this one generated a bunch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886659
  - manmal 5y ago
    I‘m not fetishizing. There is lots of hard evidence that at least the Swedish model is superior to what eg Central European countries have. Our country sends delegations to Sweden to analyze what they are doing better, and maybe get inspired by that. Sorry for throwing Finland into the mix, I probably misremembered.
    - bedobi 5y ago
      Apologies, I didn't mean to say you were fetishizing, just that there's a lot of Scandinavia fetishizing on HN (and everywhere else for that matter) in general, haha
manmal 5y ago
You should have a look what public schooling looks like in most other countries, you‘d be surprised how good you had it. The fact that you dreaded school proves nothing.