As we have been able to read, it seems that the Finnish educational system is preparing to execute what it seems will be one of the most revolutionary changes in the educational system of the last century. And is that Finland wants to eliminate traditional school subjects. History or Geography classes are over, all the subjects that until now had been taught by teachers around the world will disappear.
Surely there will be a lot of students who are currently jumping on the couch celebrating the news.
But what do they propose?
As explained by those responsible for this project, the educational system as we understand it, that is, with separate subjects that are taught by one or more teachers is an obsolete system. Many of the subjects taught do not contain any elements that are useful in modern life. Society has changed and therefore education needs to adapt to these changes, companies and the market require another type of preparation.
Therefore an education is proposed that would happen classes by subject, so for example we would have "Europe" classes in which concepts such as economics, community languages and history (only that corresponding to European countries) would be studied, but we would also have other "topics" such as Cafeteria in which students would learn math, languages and communication skills, too in order to become good waiters.
Collaborative Classes
Another of the changes proposed by the reform is to end with the passive student who spends hours sitting, listening to what the teacher says. They propose interactive classes in which the student actively participates with the teacher and the rest of the students, creating study groups that can work together. Something like that we saw that it has been one of the proposals for the education of the future.
Recall that Finland is one of the countries that has been in the top positions of the PISA reports for years, with one of the most advanced educational systems in the world.
In my humble opinion, it's a big mistake
It is clear that this is a goal for the entire squad of Finnish businessmen to society as a whole and something that the rest of the world's entrepreneurs are wanting. Have a specialized workforce with the right and necessary knowledge to carry out their work. All are advantages, being a much more specialized system, the study time I imagine will be shorter and therefore we can have specialized positions, I was going to say engineers but I doubt they can be called that, with less than 20 years.
We will have experts who will not know everything that does not involve your world. Yes, it is true, we will have very specialized professionals, the problem is that one will know how to do one thing and point. I guess as long as the economy is going well and your company continues to have benefits you can continue with your position year after year. The problem will come if I hit a crisis in the sector that forces us to "reprogram ourselves" If today it is already difficult to change the type of work, in such a specialized society it will be even more complicated.
Goodbye to the general culture
It is clear that the Finns consider what we call general culture, such as knowing where China is, why the French got up one day and decided to go through the guillotine to the entire aristocracy or why we spent five years shooting against a German lord with a mustache, it must be something that only serves to attend competitions, fill in the newspaper crossword, give them stretched at the bar or have something to defend against your brother-in-law at Christmas dinner, because they have loaded a stroke If it does not give benefits then it is not useful. I understand then that books, of course, only those that do not meet business requirements, will have less future than a package of jelly beans at the nursery door.
Someone should remind Finnish ministers that the purpose in learning, in the education of our children is not only to prepare them for future work, but to train them as people, to fill their spirit and furnish their interior or at least teach them how do what.
And here, what topics would there be?
I leave the question open in case you want to propose an idea to Minister Wert. But as I see it, there would be no school worth its salt that did not have one of "reality programming"
