Ok, Finland rah rah-- get that part out of the way. What I want to know about is the photo caption, which reads "Finnish pupils spend the shortest amount of time in lessons." Perhaps they're referring to a separate article, which contains this information:
While pupils in the UK enter formal schooling at five, in Finland children enter school at seven - and then only for half days. They also have longer holidays than in the UK, including a 10-week break in the summer.
Also very different from what happens in this country, which seems to push for earlier and earlier education, more hours, less vacation, etc. to the exclusion of everything else except maybe football.
Posted by Jason at December 7, 2004 10:30 AM