Man Finland has it.

As one of the queen’s professors once said, “Writing exams isn’t a measure of intelligence or knowledge, it’s about getting inside your professor’s head to figure out what’s going to be covered on the test.” It’s important to teach students how to learn so they can become independent, innovative thinkers capable of making a difference in this world. This is how they can function in a society where education has a very ambiguous meaning.

Finland has one of the best educational systems in the world, in my opinion. One of the most amazing nonconformist education systems in Finland, which is among the best in the world, should be used as a model for how students should regard their time in school and their education. For the first six years of their schooling, Finnish kids are typically not measured, they don’t generally start school until they are seven years old, and they don’t generally take examinations or perform assignments until they are well into their teen years. These youngsters have not been brought up to view school as a cycle of measurement, where everything comes down to standardized testing, graded assignments, and exams that account for the majority of their final grades.
Their educational culture is very different from that of the Western and Eastern worlds, which places a major emphasis on evaluating students. In the eastern world, where I feel it will take at least a few years for at least my folks to grasp that skills are prized today rather than grades. Because they still view it as a terrible nightmare. So “What you project remains in your heart forever, although what you perceive is entirely mindful.”