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Why Finland’s schools outperform most others in the developed world
Youtube ^ | 4-2020 | Abc Australia

Posted on 03/29/2026 11:58:15 AM PDT by MarlonRando

Children in Finland start school at the age of seven. They are only in classrooms half the time as most other countries. Its students outperform most others across the world. Why is that?

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Education
KEYWORDS: angrybirds; education; finland; homogeneity; magicreindeer; yearroundschool

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This video is 6 years old but the stats still hold. I wish we could find out why they do so well and replicate it here! I’m not a very good detective but maybe you can watch the video and then tell me why you think they perform so well. Mars here we come!
1 posted on 03/29/2026 11:58:15 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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Why is that?

Classes are generally monocultural.

Blacks in the US performed much better when they had Black teachers in segregated schools.

2 posted on 03/29/2026 12:00:15 PM PDT by PAR35
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Perhaps Finns have a genetic advantage?


3 posted on 03/29/2026 12:04:59 PM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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I looked it up. 96% of the population is ethnic Finn. That can’t be it though, because diversity is our greatest strength and so the United States is very very strong! Let’s keep thinking because it can’t be genes.


4 posted on 03/29/2026 12:06:33 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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Just learning & mastering the Finnish language makes you a genius!


5 posted on 03/29/2026 12:10:28 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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I grew up in a PNW logging town full if Finnish immigrants.

Why do Finn kids do so well? 1)Don’t mess with a Finnish dad and 2)see number 1


6 posted on 03/29/2026 12:13:01 PM PDT by llevrok (Voter apathy wins elections for liberals.)
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I looked it up. 96% of the population is ethnic Finn.

Hope they don't ever let the muslims in or else they're finnished.

7 posted on 03/29/2026 12:13:51 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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Involved parents, limited multiculturalism, limited woke indoctrination. It all adds up to increased learning of what’s important in life. That’s my best guess.


8 posted on 03/29/2026 12:26:35 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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Yep


9 posted on 03/29/2026 12:38:55 PM PDT by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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What? They don’t teach how rotten Finland is? How their “colonizer” forefathers stole the land? How they are all living on stolen land? How trannies and POCs are oppressed by the Finns? What’s wrong with those people?


10 posted on 03/29/2026 12:42:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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diversity is our greatest strength and so the United States is very very strong! Let’s keep thinking because it can’t be genes.

Not just genes.

Racist, white supremacist Lyndon Baines Johnson and his democrat henchmen throwing fathers out of homes as part of buying votes from folks now trapped in the modern democrat plantation.

11 posted on 03/29/2026 12:43:42 PM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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it’s pretty much genes


12 posted on 03/29/2026 12:44:37 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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Is this a pedagogical method to ensure that when Christians are brought before the Finnish Supreme Court they are found guilty and their speech becomes illegal?

Finnish Supreme Court found Päivi Räsänen guilty for saying “homosexuality is a developmental disorder.”

finnish

The court ruled this claim was factually incorrect based on modern medical understanding and derogatory toward a protected group (LGBT people). That combination met Finland’s legal threshold for “incitement against a group” (hate speech).

13 posted on 03/29/2026 12:52:17 PM PDT by aspasia
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protected people. Is that like a titmouse?


14 posted on 03/29/2026 1:00:18 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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Last time I read about it, white Americans test out about in the middle of the top half of Western European countries. What you would expect given their ethnic background.

It's the blacks and Hispanics dropping US averages. Blacks are taught that doing well in school is "acting white." Millions of Hispanic kids have parents only semi-literate in their own language.

The Hispanics will eventually catch up. The black problem in this area, like most, is much harder to address.

15 posted on 03/29/2026 1:13:06 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Hispanic aggregate iq is too low.


16 posted on 03/29/2026 1:14:44 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn. .. )
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I see what you did there :-)


17 posted on 03/29/2026 1:26:55 PM PDT by jackibutterfly ( )
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It may be that their winters have few hours of daylight and many hours to study.


18 posted on 03/29/2026 1:29:05 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Finland is no longer even in the top 10, based on PISA scores.

Singapore is #1


19 posted on 03/29/2026 1:36:00 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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I strongly suspect a large part of IQ is culture driven: if you live surrounded by a crappy culture that does not use abstract concepts learning to think using abstraction is a waste of effort, as is acquiring patience, thrift, long term planning, etc.

The mind has habits as well as the body, and if those are never exercised or even positively discouraged (which would happen in many cases even by blacks raised by whites in our society), then IQ will suffer.

20 posted on 03/29/2026 1:47:09 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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