The secret of the best education

A country where the best grade students want to be teachers, where teachers have a passion they want to share and where a the whole country give the profession the value it has.

Teaching in Finland is a work that goes outside the classroom. Outside when they are preparing their own lectures and outside also when they are sharing common areas with students. No offices, no locks, no property, everything for everyone.

Students start school with 7 years old but at that time nearly all of them have learned how to read and write in the home-schools. Once in the real school, teachers have the same students for most of their school life. They know each other, they know in what they are good and in what they are not. Three teachers share the same classroom and extra help in allways available.

 There´s no win/lose education, learning is a team game. Teachers work together in a relaxed way, shoes out and using their own names. No power distance and a lot of trust, teacher are not asked for what to do, they know they trust on them because they know where they are, why and how to do what they need to do.

Teachers believe students are the future and they know they are a key factor on it. They are not the ones that draw the lines students need to walk in, they are the ones that walk with them along the journey.