best insight i had in this year – building a child friendly environment should be visonary soceity’s central theme

• What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic

  “every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.” offer all pupils free school meals, easy access to health care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance. to win at that game, a country has to prepare not just some of its population well, but all of its population well, for the new economy. To possess some of the best schools in the world might still not be good enough if there are children being left behind. it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity.

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