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 Offline Chaos333
PostPosted: 12/30/11 5:22 pm • # 1 
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A long but very interesting read....

Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. "Oh," he mentioned at one point, "and there are no private schools in Finland." 
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 Offline laffinalltheway
PostPosted: 12/31/11 4:27 am • # 2 
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I'm wondering if the same results could be achieved here, even if it only with one state's schools at a time?
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 Offline macroscopic
PostPosted: 12/31/11 8:22 am • # 3 
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topping for later reading today....
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 Offline green apple tree
PostPosted: 12/31/11 11:14 am • # 4 
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There it all is, in black and white.

Wow.  I'll love to cut and paste this and send it to the minister of education in ontario.  we keep getting these morons that want to emulate the american model, even though we're doing better than they are NOW.
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kathyk1024
PostPosted: 12/31/11 11:31 am • # 5 
I am not sure the Finnish model would work here.  Those are collectivist concepts and we are an individualist society.  I think the concepts of equity and collectivism goes beyond just the school.
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 Offline oskar576
PostPosted: 12/31/11 3:52 pm • # 6 
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we are an individualist society.

Only when convenient, methinks.
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 Offline macroscopic
PostPosted: 01/01/12 10:11 am • # 7 
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this article is the bomb. i am going to forward it to my Montessori teacher.
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kathyk1024
PostPosted: 01/01/12 11:15 am • # 8 
oskar576 wrote:
we are an individualist society.

Only when convenient, methinks.

Always.  When were we ever all for one and one for all?????
  
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 Offline oskar576
PostPosted: 01/01/12 11:58 am • # 9 
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The country that has the highest military spending in the history of the world?
Armed forces are anything but individualistic.
The majority of USians vote along party lines no matter what - how is that individualistic?
USians follow one fad after another - individualistic?
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 Offline macroscopic
PostPosted: 01/01/12 3:08 pm • # 10 
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oskar576 wrote:
The country that has the highest military spending in the history of the world?
Armed forces are anything but individualistic.
The majority of USians vote along party lines no matter what - how is that individualistic?
USians follow one fad after another - individualistic?

we also just endured a stretch of time when criticizing the governments actions in the anti-Terror campaign was equated with treason.

it is something i hope will be a distant memory to my grandkids, but it was a very painful thing to see.
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kathyk1024
PostPosted: 01/01/12 3:25 pm • # 11 

Individualism is “the opposite of collectivism; together they form on of the dimensions of national cultures. Individualism stands for a society in which the ties between individuals are loose: everyone is expected to look after himself or herself and his or her immediate family only.â€
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