What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success

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29. Very informative. Thank you.

Another way of looking at LEARNING is that it is a BY-PRODUCT of problem solving and play.

This is why the younger children do better than older, schooled children do in imaginative activities that require thinking outside of the box.

Teaching should involve setting up an environment for learning.

What passes for education in the U.S. is more correctly labeled as indoctrination into an authoritarian culture. The effective goal is to dumb down the student into a subservient role based on Pavlov's experiment in training dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell.

In the real world, "progress" comes with innovation, not repeating the same "mistakes". However, innovation transfers power from those who want to manufacture and sell buggy whips (or continue to maintain an economic system based on a massive and wasteful exploitation of fossil fuels in spite of the huge damage to the environment) to those who want to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.

So The Powers That Be do everything possible to keep the public dependent on fossil fuels while doing everything they can to thwart the move to renewable energy and conservation.

You might be interested in Bruce E. Levine's books, particularly Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy. He is a clinical psychologist who is highly critical of the massive drugging of children.