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Originally Posted by Mattsius
As for my thoughts on the article, mainly I would agree with it. But as always with columns like these they tend to romanticize the reality. For example I wouldn't say that being a teacher in Finland is something particularly prestigious. Maybe those figures about there being 10 applicants for every place in the universities that train teachers is correct, but maybe that's because they know they will get jobs when they get out. There's a big shortage of teachers in Finland at the moment (especially for the Swedish-talking population), at least in upper-secondary schools. The situation is I think better in the Universities.
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A few other points worth considering:
1) "Finnish senior citizens are well cared for." On the contrary, the system is in many places abysmal, due to a shortage of workers. The same goes for the elementary and high-schools.
2) The unemployments benefits are so good, that many people stop working altogether and instead just abuse the system.
