and in here where the kids can play at lunchtime there's a ping pong table
a pool table and in here for the cold winter days they've got a room full of bean bags and couches
and there's even a playstation in the corner it seems like it's such a rich school
it's very nice i wish i had went to school like that that's great
a playstation that's cool
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most others across the developed
world so uh this is uh from the abc news uh australia so we're going to do this video
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it's 8 a.m on a cold morning in the suburbs of helsinki
and these primary school children are getting ready for class this morning's lesson ancient
history well they are reading with prayers some texts about egyptian ancient life they
are reading and then i'm gonna ask something what what did they find out from the book
i think we all are ready now this is a school system that for years
has been among the world's best and then what about this cold one yes
and yet these kids will spend half as much time in a classroom as australian children when you
go to the first grade when you are seven years old the amount of hours is 20 hours a week it's
the minimum and then it gets more hours the older you get but it's still less than in many countries
in europe or in the world in finland it's individual teachers who decide
how the curriculum is taught including how much technology should feature in their classrooms
to leave class to work at the school's own student-run cafe you can go yeah that's okay
what i'm not gonna say nothing i'm just gonna say
i've never heard of that before but hey that's pretty cool
hello one cake for the cameraman
one cake for me and two coffees how much is it two euros and sixty cents how much changes
don't do that tip over here i learned that in previous videos we don't do that tip stuff man
but he's australian how is he actually speaking about tips but i think some of you guys actually
said that some of the countries actually do do the tips but um america's wear tips at bro like i mean
but you know it was pretty cool he could have just given her the flat hours sometimes
you just like for me personally um it's not necessarily that i want to tip you
but um if you're doing a personal business and i like what you're doing i'm gonna be
like oh okay oh no you can keep the change that's fine you can keep that
you know what i mean it's it's a less more um you know avoiding the tip you know what i mean
in finland school lunches like books and excursions are free the kids select what they want
sit down with their friends and teachers to eat before they clean up after themselves
the children rug up again to play outside some play a raucous version of soccer
some play basketball while others wait for the hockey rink to work i'm trying
to play some hoops right now i wish i i wish i could be playing some basketball right now
there are plenty of options for bad weather days too
the facilities in this school are just amazing outside we saw an ice skating rink and in here
where the kids can play at lunchtime there's a ping pong table a pool table
and in here for the cold winter days they've got a room full of bean bags and couches and there's
even a playstation in the corner it seems like it's such a rich school that's paradise
it's paradise i wish i had went to school like that i'm crying a playstation that's cool
a playstation at school a pool table i love pool a playstation
bro ain't no way no no there's no way it's not even high school yo
oh my gosh wow wow wow the most i did when i was at school was um track and field or um basketball
so those are practically the two physical activities or sports that i could actually
partake in in terms of for fun but the fact that these kids bro they got playstation bro
get me one right now i wish i i wish i could go back to
school right now as a kid i definitely choose finland
bro that's sick you must get more money than other schools no we don't it saved money for
everyone actually they take and borrow a book in finland schools are not allowed to raise
private funds or to charge fees from parents all schools are equitably funded from taxation and
in our system everything is free for the students actually we don't collect any money from from the
parents we want our schools to be equal and have the equal opportunities to arrange the education
so therefore also the finance that makes a lot of sense because if you um if you think about
education a lot of people fail at education due to the fact they cannot um afford certain stuff
you know what i mean so take a check in america um you will notice that a lot of people might not
go to college or university whichever you prefer due to the fact that they don't have the financial
capability to do that with that said i know that finland um the university there is free of course
a lot of people commented that on my video who are from finland so i know it's free right but that's
besides the point the point is for a rich person it's not hard to send their kid to a university
for a poor person that's kind of difficult and i'm pretty sure not everybody in finland is living
easy life whereas if school was free sorry if you had to pay for university of finland i'm pretty
sure everybody would not be able to go right so that's a thing where um allowing it to be free
gives everybody an equal opportunity which really makes sense like if you personally don't want to
go to school because you're a person who you know you're just you know you're hands on you don't
really do that schoolwork stuff i get that but it's really really really good to see what they do
with the school system system need to be equal and treat equally all the schools yes it is
older brother levi is in year seven and this afternoon he's got maths we have
like the last chapter before we have the next exam there are regular exams in finland but the results
of these tests are not published and shared we have national tests but the big difference
is we don't compare schools that this is not good school this this is bad school and we just use the
information that we evaluate ourselves but perhaps the single biggest difference in finnish education
is the standard of teaching levi's maths teacher una anez speaks five languages and has
postgraduate qualifications so every one of us we have to have a master's degree to to be teachers
so like for example me i'm math and chemist chemistry and physics teacher ooh land a career
as a teacher is highly sought after to enter the studies in university actually it's really hard
i'm sorry guys i really love finance and um how much does a teacher get paid in finland i'm not
trying to become a teacher i don't like students i don't like really to interact that much i'm sorry
don't i'm not a bad guy just i'm more of a fast pace i'm really i'm really fast-paced so i'm i
don't have the patience to deal with anything like that so teacher says oneplus one is to immediate
it's not a ten years or a two weeks two months i don't have that kind of patience so it's just a
natural thing with my brain where um i'm i'm not trying to praise myself but i i i'm too fast when
it comes to understanding and practically figuring things out so for me to go to uh a school to teach
i couldn't do it i just don't have the patience to do it if like no i just don't i could probably
do that at a university which i probably need a doctorate degree to do that which i'm not
interested in because back when i was younger i actually decided that i did not want to be
too educated because i felt i would have been too proud and i wanted to be as humble as possible
right so but i personally would not teach at a high school or at a lower level but there that's
really crazy that they gotta have a master's degree and she said math physics and chemistry and
if you know anything those three is those three are what are you called practically the most
challenging uh topics or not topics subjects or learning thinking whatever however you say it over
the world right but for me i'm going to just say there are those are the three hardest subjects to
learn right anywhere you go in this world right so um that's pretty that's pretty cool that she would
be able to do that and you know but tell me how much they make please they take something like 10
to study teaching if you really want to be a teacher it can't be your second or third or i
don't know what kind of option it has to be your first i believe that they know what is the best
for our children i'm not a teacher i don't have that education so we don't interfere their work
there's little anxiety about finding the right school for your child we trust that they have
very good school so we don't need to do any research work or i think that is not a question
finland is a vast
also guys that's one thing i think i'm gonna be doing uh you know i'm gonna be trying country's
food like every country you see like how she had those you know bright looking things i'm gonna
be trying finish foods one day on this channel as well but look at this dog it's really cute
it's really amazing dog that was a really amazing dog you know but i like it homogenous society
but its education success must surely offer some lessons for australia i would like to say that
try to build the system that you trust the people and its investment in teachers seems an
obvious place to begin the society respects the teachers it means also the parents respect the
teachers and they don't question the teachers and that's in finland a really huge thing
oh that's it that's it
some record
i was recording that's really beautiful guys i gotta get out of here i just realized i wasn't
even recording uh what i'm reacting to but either ways this was beautiful
and uh i'll figure this out fix it up for you guys but anyways guys i'm out of here peace