Month: October 2018

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Parenting

Happy childhood is a myth

Which is the happiest age for human being? I did some googling and the most significant results shows that happiness curve seems to be u-shaped. In these graphs human life is at its worst around 40 years of age. But, these charts start from around age 15-16 so they really say nothing about childhood. Still, […]

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Education Finland

Unofficial remarks on Finnish school system (part 1: Literacy)

School yard

It’s been widely noticed that Finnish school system definitely has some good properties. You can find an official description for example from here but in this series I take into consideration some features that may not come into attention internationally that often. Literacy rate in Finland is very high. Wikipedia uses the Unesco 2015 list […]