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on the outskirts of Helsinki the ronnie is a getting ready for school
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degree weather try to mess and Tina have poor children
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any hi mom 30 this hungry bunch
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all educated at their local state school
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for the girls it's a short walk away grundy mackey comprehensive
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the secondary and primary school rolled into one
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the first lesson about school in Finland is relax
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take your shoes off when you arrive and when you get into the classroom
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call good teachers by their first name me a pic to the east
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alaska that this is Mariana because her people stay at the same school for so
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she's been a teacher for most the best school life
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I'm like rolling ap my children priced
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but they probably have amassed more when they come to school
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and now of 25 years I Stephen all
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I still see what has happened in
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in back North what is the best things with you can drink at the key
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I tell them on the school run okay
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recital day good learning foreign languages he is seen as key
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missing an issue these eleven-year-olds French is not their second
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but the third language when the thirty
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some speaker poles I'll see all do the math sure
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yeah at Infineon success is not measured
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on winners and losers yeah all saw Palmer
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learning is more like a team game the best in West pupils in
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any subject taught together out controversial maybe
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it's something I say works it's very important to have
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at everyone same class but of course that
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creates a problem every now and then you kiss bet there are some that are really
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princes in English that fluent in English day that very good and and and
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there are some that need
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need special attention but of course we tried to give that to them
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for giving pupils extra help is standard practice
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comes up on my cousin in this class there are three teachers
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advance any teacher double lesson Marvi
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just works with those who struggle
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manage the teachers here that would make any education secretary
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go green with envy they're the key ingredient
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why in a subject like sign stuff in schools so hard you guys thought about
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teachers will have to complete a master's degree
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trust is important here skimpy the kids head of
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unaccompanied for a long cross country ski
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that effortless ease in achieving quality education
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is shown off by one statistic children here to the least number of class hours
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in the developed world and the best results
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at Finland's education success the head teacher gives his teachers much of the
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but another reason is the T word again trust
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this time in him nobody site
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is saying pat have blunted to like this aren't like that
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and and the feeling his that the trust us
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this is my school it's not the up
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politician scored in countries like the UK and the US
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education is built around the idea of competition some schools will succeed
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and someone's incredibly though the results at this school in Helsinki
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virtually the same as any other school independent
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and that means is no such thing as a feigning
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in that success has kick-started kinda education tourism
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more than 100 foreign delegations visited last year
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but the woman in charge admits there's still room for improvement
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PA system it supports why am I so those
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pupils who has the learning difficulties but we have to pay more attention also
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for those pupils are
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who are very talented and now we have started a pilot project
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about it also that's how to support those
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hubris horror who are right gifted and summer ass we called on one of the
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country's biggest success stories
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got to finish businesses want for the future
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for the Finnish mobile phone giant
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it's about maintaining high standards in the call some checks
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and consistency across the workforce
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what we want education system in Finland to continue doing
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is to keep a very good at level in mathematics science and technology
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related subjects being in a classroom with less
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uptown to people it makes you as a talented pupil
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able to teach you the other ones tooth work in a group with different kind of
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and to accept diverse city right after the mission had conducted in the ass and
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so back to the Ron years and the youngest in their family what has it
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also is six unlike all children in finland
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he once thought it proper school until he's seven
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me know how much thinking the by then he'll be pitching to start classes
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but in the meantime its lessons with Mom at home
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house if that's true then I realized their
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excess class and like Tina spaghetti bolognaise
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Finland success is part homemade 10:50 p.m.
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what they've done have a culture here valuing education
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and parents know they have a key role to play too disorder from
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trying you can say China their parents and entered the kids
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and then this to school and a pediatrician I meant to happen
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active dialogue definitions to drop i distracting you guys that I think
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at least in in a in our squad crap
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explaining why the fence cool hi isn't easy
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like other European countries finna has very little
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immigration so when people start lining language isn't a problem
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but this system success is built upon the idea
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less can be more when you have relaxed schoolers
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free from politicians when nobody gets left behind in
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arrived at them summer Ridge BBC News in Helsinki
