Why does Finland have better results in education than Chile and the world?

Finland is within the best educational systems in the world thanks to its educational

model that does not distinguish between schools (universal model) and is applied as

well as universities and schools. There are many positive qualities that are realized

within the educational world, but the question is, what are the differences between

Finnish education and Chilean education? Why is the Chilean not so effective?

In the first place, and one of the most important differences between the two models, is

that in Finland they do not compare schools or students, nor do they do standardized

tests in which students can feel ashamed of, they are only tested to find out their

understanding (in the case where it is seen that there is not much understanding in the

subject, teachers should look for more teaching methods) and psychological tests to

know their abilities. Quite the opposite of Chile, where one of the most important

methods is qualifications, where the level of "learning" is measured but in truth they

don't learn from this method, why not? because most of the time students only study for

the test or work to be done at the moment, so they only memorize and do not learn the

content. Another factor against it is that culturally (or at least a few years ago) it was

very normal to compare one with another and much of the time it was the teachers

themselves who were the cause of these comparisons, making the students feel bad,

pressuring them to learn as his partner and generating anxiety in the affected.

Another point in favor to Finland is that the teachers listen to opinions and wishes from

the students, so it is a student-centered education, motivating them to do what they like

and having recreational activities such as baking, dancing, singing and doing different

kinds of sports, thus expanding the learning areas in different perspectives and thus

giving use to the eight intelligences (linguistic-verbal, logical-mathematical, visual-

other hand, here in Chile, education is focused much more on scientific and humanistic

area (linguistic-verbal and logical-mathematical according to the eight intelligences)

without giving the opportunity to teaching focused on other areas, something that is

very important for that each student and person in general has a different learning

capacity, just as one can learn by writing, another can learn outdoors by touching

everything around them. In any case, there are workshops that are focused on

recreational activities but are optional, so it does not apply to all students. Likewise, as

education in Chile is mainly focused on mathematics and language, some students are

left behind in learning, simply because their skills are not corresponding to those

particular areas and thus they become frustrated by not being able to understand the

content.

Also, students do not have homework, because it is considered that they should have

and enjoy their personal life outside of school and relaxing their brain for the next day,

in this way they do not stress academically and also only use the corresponding hours of

school to do homework, this is also applied for university students. On the other hand,

here in Chile there are usually tasks outside of school hours, perhaps sometimes it is not

considered a very high level of stress, but in any case it limits the student to do their

daily or family activities. A great example of the academic overload that exists in the

Chilean educational system is the university reality, the vast majority of students do not

have time to make social or family life, to the point of not worrying about themselves,

eating at incorrect times, sleeping little and not going to the doctor when necessary.

And finally Finnish students have less time in school (like 4 hours) so it's even nice for

them to go to school at the right time, also lunch, books and excursions are totally free.

Also, by having recreational activities as I mentioned before, the teachers and the
institution in general try to teach them basic activities of daily life, so after the students

finish eating, they clean the dishes and utensils they used by themselves. Here in chile

there are 7 to 8 hours of school day, so the students are exhausted and at the end of the

day they no longer pay attention to the class (because they are mentally overwhelmed).

There are also food facilities for the students, but it is only for low-income students, so

it is a good system, but it is only one more evidence of the social inequality that exists

in our country, also affecting establishments, since there are public and private schools,

thus labeling the education based on your social class.

In conclusion, Chile should consider implementing an educational system similar (or I

hope equal) to that of Finland, because despite the good academic results shown in the

statistics, it makes life much easier for students, allowing them to experience each stage

of their lives in the social, family and educational spheres and also their corresponding

cycles, allowing children to be children, playing, running, having fun and at the same

time learning while they do it.