Education Quote by Amanda Ripley

“The more time I spent in Finland, the more I started to worry that the reforms sweeping across the United States had the equation…

— Amanda Ripley

“In Finland, all education schools were selective. Getting into a teacher-training program there was as prestigious as getting into medical school in the United…

— Amanda Ripley

“Education became Finland’s best hope for preparing its population for a new economy based not on agriculture or manufacturing, but on knowledge.”

— Anu Partanen

“One of the most important policies introduced by Finland’s school reforms was the requirement that all teachers from elementary through high school have a…

— Anu Partanen

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

— Harri Holkeri

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

— Liz Kendall

“Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in…

— Diane Ravitch

“In my opinion, this school and its contemporaries were nothing more than cheap merchants of social status, selling an inflated sense of self-worth to…

— Meg Rosoff

“Did all Finns like to make clever witticisms about life? Or was it just this one driver? Tsukuru hoped it was the latter.”

— Haruki Murakami

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration…

— Andy Hargreaves

Finns love if their athletes do well, then they support.

— Valtteri Bottas

Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close…

— Neal Shusterman