Canadian Moving to Finland

[adam7]

What a load of crap these pages have been, again, unfortunately.

What is the problem with the people that post all these senseless preconceptions. The posts seem to reflect more on the social ineptness of the posters than anything in reality. Someone seems to try to project personal problems on Finnish society and jrslv...

Communication issues arise in every highly developed western nation. Usually it's not an issue of nationalities but of persons.

Self-depreciation used to be the norm of Finnish speaking Finns some decades ago. Today nobody remembers it, except posters on this site. What a load of "non-wanted brown matter".

jrslv, don't get discouraged by the negativity on this site. It isn't representative of the culture. It looks like expats with personal issues have invaded. And, BTW, in Finnish schools, independent thinking and project working is the norm. Otherwise the results of PISA and other surveys wouldn't be what they are.

There is a huge difference between the authoritarian school which I attended some decades ago and the school my children attend. Even some decades ago the Finnish education was far ahead of American education for students of the same age. Durin the dark ages of Finnish education I attended High School in a white High School of respected status in a mid-western state. I was so bored by the academic level... Calculus was at the same level, when you took the advanced course. Most of the other classes were, well...

Speech class was good, even though only the teacher understood rhetoric and reading song lyrics as prose. Most of the kids in that class had never read anything longer than a Marvel comic magazine, and were not able to connect literature to speech (rhetoric).

Otherwise, when I was used to essay tests in history, social studies etc. where I had to explain issues, the school in the US, had multiple choice tests. When I asked for the reason for this simplicity, the history teacher answered that he was aware of the low level and that you cannot expect more of the "material", which I thought was a load of "brown matter", and he further stated that you are only expected to think in college. As I understand, standards have not arisen in the US.

Again, jrslv, do not get discouraged by the negativity on this site or my negativity in this post.

[cors187]

Brown matter?
I think my posts are closer to a corn kernel.