Here in Finland they're not teaching kids to read until they're seven or eight. At the moment for Lumi it's structured play, practical skills like skating and how to tie shoe laces. And homework starts at 12 years, with a couple of half hour spots a week, building up to two or three hours a week by the time they're in their late teens.
The OECD's PISA study, which assesses and ranks the world's education systems consistently ranks Finland in the top five, and marks it out as one of the high flyers.
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Date: 2012-01-26 07:43 am (UTC)The OECD's PISA study, which assesses and ranks the world's education systems consistently ranks Finland in the top five, and marks it out as one of the high flyers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading
Of course countries like the UK and the US aren't going to change their methods though...