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A review by jessplanninglife
Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg
3.0
I think Pasi is excellent and I love his philosophy of education, Finland's philosophy of education, I should say. But I really struggled through this.
So much of it was just depressing because Australia is GERM infected. And that's GERM, Global Educational Reform Movement, and it's killing our system and driving good teachers out.
And don't even get me started on what it does to kids!
Even though it was a bit of a slog to get through at times, this book did give me extra encouragement that I'm on the right track and I'm going to do my best to protect my students from beauracratic garbage and let them learn.
My favourite quote was:
"Teach less. Test less. Learn more."
I'm going to print that and hang it in my classroom as my 2020 philosophy.
So much of it was just depressing because Australia is GERM infected. And that's GERM, Global Educational Reform Movement, and it's killing our system and driving good teachers out.
And don't even get me started on what it does to kids!
Even though it was a bit of a slog to get through at times, this book did give me extra encouragement that I'm on the right track and I'm going to do my best to protect my students from beauracratic garbage and let them learn.
My favourite quote was:
"Teach less. Test less. Learn more."
I'm going to print that and hang it in my classroom as my 2020 philosophy.