Its 2am on a Tuesday nights, normal people would be asleep, but many students from Egg-Zavier are up studying their little butts off for an AP test they forgot they had the next day.
Now, imagine a world where you could be sound asleep at 2am, instead of downing Red Bulls and popping adderall. For students in Finland, this is their reality.
Instead of worrying about ruining their 4.33 with an A- like the over- achievers at Egg-Zavier, Finnish kids only worry about self- improvement, not competing with others to be “number one”. They have the freedom to attempt new ways of learning without fear of it coming back to bite them in the ass when preparing for college.
How many times have you gotten a test back that you didn’t do well on and felt the crippling fear that someone might see your grade? In Finland, this isn’t an issue. Students are not graded on an A-F scale, rather they are given descriptive feedback explain to them what to improve upon and what they have done well. Because of this, they are not compared to other students and don’t feel the pressure of being better than anyone else. They are able to learn in a way that best suits them.
In addition, teachers aren’t worried about getting fired due to poor test grades. The responsibility of learning does not lie with the teacher, but rather with the student. So, if an entire class fails an assignment, the teacher won’t make the next so easy that a five year old could do it, like some teachers at Egg- Zavier do, cool?
These learning methods are proven successful by Finland’s top ranking in worldwide tests. So why don’t other school systems adopt these method? Instead of freaking out about how you’re going to get into college and trying to be the best, you can learn things that you will actually remember, and maybe, actually have fun being a teenager.
Sincerely, The Jew and The Muslim (friends at last)
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