> I'd been given to understand Finland is generally regarded as one of the better education systems in the world. Of course Finland (and most Northern European

> I'd been given to understand Finland is generally regarded as one of the better education systems in the world. Of course Finland (and most Northern European countries) has another advantage - they're teaching Finns. Pretty much anything you do in those monocultures "works". So, their success with any program tells us nothing about how the same program will work in a cultures where things do fail, let alone diverse environments.