RE: Are you a formula person or an idea person? Idea economy professionals.
The more of your posts I read the more I think the Finnish education system is superior :D
"School actually teaches you surprising little about what you need to function as a human in society: Personal finance, dangers of "investing", how to handle money, food knowledge and its impact on health, basic psychology and philosophy, human relationships and knowledge about your own cognitive processes and biases, creative problem-solving, how to deal with technology, how to think about learning and unlearning, how to learn much faster."
The Finnish upper-secondary has health education, psychology (involving cognitive psychology and biases) and philosophy. Unfortunately personal finance is not taught or is taught very poorly. Also not everyone goes to upper-secondary, it is for those who want to learn to learn in higher education. Additionally you learn general knowledge on just about everything you need.
I'm sure I wrote an published a better comment before, but somehow steemit never registered it. I'm not going to write everything again, but thought this would be interesting for you to know, since I'm all the time for education, so you might better understand from where I'm coming from with my view.
The education wonks do seem to hold up the Finnish system as an example. I am not so sure, not that it is not good. The whole concept of school as we understand it needs to be thoroughly rebuilt from the ground up. The basic assumptions that create its very structure are still way too industrialistic. Merely tweaking the curriculum is not going to "solve" education. Ricardo Semler is great at examining fundamental assumptions:
In my earlier comment (which did not go through) I noted that I think there is a lot to better in the system, but I think many countries could learn from some of the things in the Finnish system if these things are special.
Also, the thing I hate most about the school system is grades. Grades are the ultimate motivation killer. They lead your attention to something useless, instead of the learning itself. In Finland they luckily only start that non-sense on the fourth grade, and then eventually increase it. Before that there are no grades you need to worry about.
If you think about it, the concept of grades is specifically insidious: It is a very unidimensional measurement of the value of students, as if you are doing quality control on products. The insidious part is that if you don't meet "the standard" you are discarded as if you have no value... Many people that have wonderful talents are discarded by this system because it is inept to develop anything but the standard curriculum, anybody that does not fit is simply shunted aside.
Ironically many creative people who don't do well in standardized schooling are the ones who will be better placed in the idea economy than the obedient A+ students...
I think this sums it up:
