Knowledge is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Getting that knowledge can be an ambitious task, especially when teaching is a treacherous endeavor. Teaching effectively is a difficult skill to master but, that should not be an excuse for the Canadian education system to be broken. Not just because it does not fulfill its duty of teaching; but also because it occasionally manages to make students less intelligent. Several nationwide statistics and international studies support this idea. The consensus of the population agrees as well – so why has the problem not been resolved yet? Many educators in Canada are putting their efforts into educational reform but, are not implementing any good ideas. The search must start in the countries which have some of the best education systems in the world. When we turn to Finland, we remark that the main difference …show more content…
Not only is the Finnish high school graduation rate at 93% but, for several years, Finland has scored in the top five and occasionally even number one in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) study. The main difference between Finnish and Canadian high schools lies with the obscurely contrasting amounts of work. Generally, in Canada, Grade 12 students can expect to write an average of a test per week and receive nearly daily homework; that does not include the immense amount of projects, presentations, and assignments that students need to do if they are taking a full semester of classes. Meanwhile, in Finland, students rarely do homework or tests until their teens and even at the high school level, it is a tiny amount compared to that of Canada. It is a fairly hard journey for students to spend the majority of their days working on school material such as homework, assignments, or studying for tests while having to balance that with their free time, work, and extra-curricular