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On another page [1] the writer says: "Children in Finland go to school year round". Why would he say that? Did he just pick a random far-away country to say a
by sampo 14y ago
On another page [1] the writer says: "Children in Finland go to school year round". Why would he say that? Did he just pick a random far-away country to say a strange (but untrue) thing about? Or does he really think that children in Finland go to school year round, even though a little googling would reveal otherwise?
[1] http://www.laurenipsum.org/mostly-lost http://www.laurenipsum.org/mostly-lost
- aristus 14y agoIn a word, yes. It's a running joke in the book, eg children in Finland start reading at 12 months. Children in Finland eat all their vegetables, etc. It's intended to poke fun at fretful American parents and the things they say to motivate children. I've gotten more outrage over this one sentence from Finns than anything else in the book. :/