Should Indonesia adopt the Finland educational system as the best higher education system in the world?
The best progressing of a country can be determined by the quality of its people. And one the things that can lead the country to have a higher quality in every aspect is a country that always able to use its Human Resource maximally. And no doubt about it, education is one of the biggest aspect that plays the highest role for human abilities development. Education is so important for reaching humans goals and dreams.
As we know that life gives various survived challenges for human, there are so many hard things that we face in our life until there are so many of us being stressed and stuck on that situation. But education can guide human to fight every hard situation through their life. Education empowers our minds that will be able to make a good thought and ideas, and enable everyone to do the right things while making life decision.
So, no matter what kind of challenges or difficulties situation everyone go through in their life, we all have something deep within us and fight every those hard situation by education. A good thing to do is to be prepared.
Then, imagine if everyone educated, they will get a lot of good things in themselves, they'll have a good quality and credibility that can be very useful for running their life. Beside of that, they will be very useful through their environment and country. Therefore, education is considered to be of the biggest treasures in every country in the world.
In this millennial era, most of the country in the world will be governed by today's youth. Their action and thoughts will be very influence for their country's development. Therefore, every country fight to make a great educational system in many ways in order to produce their very quality generation, so education is like one of the best predictors of nation's future success.
And talking about education in every country. I'm sure that Finland is the country that you've always concern most when you're talking about education in this world. Yes, since Finland elected as the most efficient education system by The Education Index, that published by the UN's Human Development Index in 2008, Finland being the most popular country as the country with the best educational system in the world, even it defeat the United States of America's educational system. As we know that USA in the best country for almost every aspect. But not for the educational system.. Finland take a lead for this.
Here's I got the table of Finland's achievements on education source by GEMS Education Solution.
And the big questions is, what's makes Finland education so great and considered as the best in the world ? let see !
When comparing to many other countries, the Finland education system is really informal, even on the highest level. It's so different where the other countries use the formal system for their education in order to make a high standard for every school. For those of you might be think that how come the informal system can makes children have a good learning, they should have a serious time on study to disciplined and educated them. Well, not sure how it could be but the fact is, Finnish did it.
Beside of that, here's another big reason of why Finland education is so great then other countries.
The First one, it comes from one of the important element in the school, that is a teacher. Becoming a teacher is not easy in Finland, for everybody who wants to be a teacher, they need to have a very good grades in high school and get selected into the top universities, at least they should be graduated from top 10 university in that country. Teachers in Finland go through a rigorous selection process, they must have a master in teaching. They assume that teachers need to have this high-quality education so they really do know how to use and share their abilities to give something very important to the children. With the highest university standard they will have a good credibility, quality and professional. And the investment in the education is large, and honest effort.
The second one is, the school is only for 4 hours a day. The school hours in Finland are also relatively shorter than other countries. In elementary school, students in Finland are mostly spend to study for only 4-5 hours a day. Moreover, for junior high school and elementary school student, they will come to the school based on the teachers suggestion. Because finish believe that with the shorter hours, it can encourage the students to be more productive. Their time is not only use for learning something but also they need to play in order to relax themselves to get the focus, so they learning process will be more pleasant and flexible. And in the beginning of the semester, teachers actually tell them to set their own target on learning than set and makes the target to their study.
The third one, Education is free at all levels. In Finland education is free at all levels from elementary school to higher education. In elementary or the basic education, it serve free daily meal and transportation for students who living away from the school. At the secondary level the students have a right to a free meal, while in the higher education meals are subsided by the state. So, with that free cost everyone can have the opportunities to study, they assume that education is not only for a children and their family only but also education is for the advancement for the country. The country have a responsibility for its people's education.
The last one, educational system in Finland has no examinations. The focus education in Finland is based on learning rather than testing, there are no national test or pupils in basic education in Finland. Children are be able to learn without pressure, so they can study as hard as they can to really improve everything they want based on their abilities. So eventhough there's no examination, the spirit of learning is still really high . Instead, teachers are responsible for assessment in their respective subject on the basis of the objectives include in the curriculum.
And there are some of reason why Finland have a very good educational system, so interesting and fascinating. And for another information Finland is not only great at its education, but also Finland has often been ranked as the best place to live in the world. Coincidence? Probably not, of course It because the education in Finland is great so it makes Finland to be a country with a better place to live .
According to Finland's successful in schooling their children. CAN INDONESIA REPLICATE THE SUCCESS THAT FINLAND HAS ACHIEVED ???
For those of you might be think, why should Indonesia? Well, besides it's because of my country, Indonesia is one of the developing countries in Asia with thousands island and rich cultural heritage that still always have a big problem in the general aspect. As the world's fourth most populous country, education in this country is still being one of the biggest problem because of its low qualities. Education qualities in Indonesia is very poor. Actually I'm afraid to said this, because I think its too reckless for me to said that :). But that is evidenced by data from UNESCO about human development index that is marked by reaching achievement of education, healthy, and income that is shown by Human Development Index that Indonesia take 111st position in 2009, decrease to 124th in 2011 among 184 countries. So how bad things are in Indonesia these days. As the aspect that takes a biggest role for fixing all of the problem that Indonesia have, every circle of Indonesia should give the most concerned for developing Indonesia's education system in order to make a great improvement and a better life through Indonesia's citizens.
To have a better quality of education, I found so many people here asked "why don't Indonesia become like Finland in its education outcome?" Afterwards another people asked "Would that work in Indonesia?" . Well, according on my opinion after everything I read about the educational system in Finland, I'm not sure that whatever Finland did for improving their quality of education until being as the best in the world, it doesn't means that Indonesia can apply all of kind of methods as Finland did. Why that so?
Indonesia and Finland are very different in so many aspect. The biggest different between Indonesia and Finland is that Indonesia is a developing country while Finland is a develop country. It's so different where Finland has more productive on handling something because it's have a lot of another good aspect than Indonesia do.
Indonesia is much more diverse than Finland. Indonesia also consists of so many islands and more multicultural than Finland have. It proves that there so many schools in every rural area in Indonesia which far from government services, while in Finland, their education is being organizing very well, and schools in the rural area has the same facilities with the school in the cities. In Indonesia, schools are typically located in the cities much more better than schools located in the rural areas. Schools in the cities has many teachers than in the rural areas, moreover, the number of qualified teachers is not evenly distributed in rural area. And of course the facilities are also more better than in the rural area. And actually it's not because we're have the different in geographical case, I mean no matter how kind of our geographical, if our government would be able to reach and serve every single thing that rural area needed, everything would be going very well.
Comparing the quality of teachers, all teachers in Finland are master and PhD graduates while in Indonesia are just mainly bachelors. In Finland, only top tier students who are diligent, smart, and have passion can be accepted to be teachers, and only teacher who graduated from top 10 best university can be accepted to be teachers. So, imagine if Indonesia follows the Finland's education rule, whereas there are so many teacher in Indonesia are just mainly bachelor, and it means there's only some of then who are masters and PhD graduates. If teachers in Indonesia should be master graduates, there would be a lot of bachelors from education faculties who cannot be a teacher, they should have take the master education first, meanwhile to become a master and PhD graduates in Indonesia would need a lot of money.
How it would be if there's no examination in Indonesian education system ?
In Indonesia, each level of education the students must follow the national exam which determined whether they will continue to the next education or not. however in Finland the students follow the national exam only in the end of the senior high school as the way to continue their education to the university. But in other hand I believe that examination is still necessary in Indonesia. Especially for National Exam (Ujian Nasional). National exam is needed to measure how effective and successful our education system is in different province in Indonesia. By seeing the result, we would know which provinces perform well and which that don't. Then, the government will be able to evaluate the result and ideally figure out which province that need more help and extra attention to increase their education. So, it's really important to take an examination. Moreover, today's National Examination is not to determined the graduation, so the student won't feel so stressful. And if there's no examination I'm sure there would so many student ignore the education, and disregard toward study.
So, in this case, no matter how effective Finland's educational system is, it doesn't mean that Indonesia can adopt those methods. We just too different in so many aspect. According to me, the thing the should Indonesian do is change our mindset through everything, because so many people Especially in rural area, they assume that educational is only for getting the diploma (Ijazah) so it can be very useful to get a work and make some money. That's so tragic because we all know that education is no other than for improve our abilities and skill to get a better person, a better place, and a better country.
So this is very important, if we just adopt the system without changing our mindset, education in Indonesia will getting more complex.
But hopefully education in Indonesia will get better and better . and hope I will get a chance to do something better for this country.
THANK YOU !
In this millennial era, most of the country in the world will be governed by today's youth. Their action and thoughts will be very influence for their country's development. Therefore, every country fight to make a great educational system in many ways in order to produce their very quality generation, so education is like one of the best predictors of nation's future success.
And talking about education in every country. I'm sure that Finland is the country that you've always concern most when you're talking about education in this world. Yes, since Finland elected as the most efficient education system by The Education Index, that published by the UN's Human Development Index in 2008, Finland being the most popular country as the country with the best educational system in the world, even it defeat the United States of America's educational system. As we know that USA in the best country for almost every aspect. But not for the educational system.. Finland take a lead for this.
Here's I got the table of Finland's achievements on education source by GEMS Education Solution.
And the big questions is, what's makes Finland education so great and considered as the best in the world ? let see !
When comparing to many other countries, the Finland education system is really informal, even on the highest level. It's so different where the other countries use the formal system for their education in order to make a high standard for every school. For those of you might be think that how come the informal system can makes children have a good learning, they should have a serious time on study to disciplined and educated them. Well, not sure how it could be but the fact is, Finnish did it.
Beside of that, here's another big reason of why Finland education is so great then other countries.
The First one, it comes from one of the important element in the school, that is a teacher. Becoming a teacher is not easy in Finland, for everybody who wants to be a teacher, they need to have a very good grades in high school and get selected into the top universities, at least they should be graduated from top 10 university in that country. Teachers in Finland go through a rigorous selection process, they must have a master in teaching. They assume that teachers need to have this high-quality education so they really do know how to use and share their abilities to give something very important to the children. With the highest university standard they will have a good credibility, quality and professional. And the investment in the education is large, and honest effort.
The second one is, the school is only for 4 hours a day. The school hours in Finland are also relatively shorter than other countries. In elementary school, students in Finland are mostly spend to study for only 4-5 hours a day. Moreover, for junior high school and elementary school student, they will come to the school based on the teachers suggestion. Because finish believe that with the shorter hours, it can encourage the students to be more productive. Their time is not only use for learning something but also they need to play in order to relax themselves to get the focus, so they learning process will be more pleasant and flexible. And in the beginning of the semester, teachers actually tell them to set their own target on learning than set and makes the target to their study.
The third one, Education is free at all levels. In Finland education is free at all levels from elementary school to higher education. In elementary or the basic education, it serve free daily meal and transportation for students who living away from the school. At the secondary level the students have a right to a free meal, while in the higher education meals are subsided by the state. So, with that free cost everyone can have the opportunities to study, they assume that education is not only for a children and their family only but also education is for the advancement for the country. The country have a responsibility for its people's education.
The last one, educational system in Finland has no examinations. The focus education in Finland is based on learning rather than testing, there are no national test or pupils in basic education in Finland. Children are be able to learn without pressure, so they can study as hard as they can to really improve everything they want based on their abilities. So eventhough there's no examination, the spirit of learning is still really high . Instead, teachers are responsible for assessment in their respective subject on the basis of the objectives include in the curriculum.
And there are some of reason why Finland have a very good educational system, so interesting and fascinating. And for another information Finland is not only great at its education, but also Finland has often been ranked as the best place to live in the world. Coincidence? Probably not, of course It because the education in Finland is great so it makes Finland to be a country with a better place to live .
According to Finland's successful in schooling their children. CAN INDONESIA REPLICATE THE SUCCESS THAT FINLAND HAS ACHIEVED ???
For those of you might be think, why should Indonesia? Well, besides it's because of my country, Indonesia is one of the developing countries in Asia with thousands island and rich cultural heritage that still always have a big problem in the general aspect. As the world's fourth most populous country, education in this country is still being one of the biggest problem because of its low qualities. Education qualities in Indonesia is very poor. Actually I'm afraid to said this, because I think its too reckless for me to said that :). But that is evidenced by data from UNESCO about human development index that is marked by reaching achievement of education, healthy, and income that is shown by Human Development Index that Indonesia take 111st position in 2009, decrease to 124th in 2011 among 184 countries. So how bad things are in Indonesia these days. As the aspect that takes a biggest role for fixing all of the problem that Indonesia have, every circle of Indonesia should give the most concerned for developing Indonesia's education system in order to make a great improvement and a better life through Indonesia's citizens.
To have a better quality of education, I found so many people here asked "why don't Indonesia become like Finland in its education outcome?" Afterwards another people asked "Would that work in Indonesia?" . Well, according on my opinion after everything I read about the educational system in Finland, I'm not sure that whatever Finland did for improving their quality of education until being as the best in the world, it doesn't means that Indonesia can apply all of kind of methods as Finland did. Why that so?
Indonesia and Finland are very different in so many aspect. The biggest different between Indonesia and Finland is that Indonesia is a developing country while Finland is a develop country. It's so different where Finland has more productive on handling something because it's have a lot of another good aspect than Indonesia do.
Indonesia is much more diverse than Finland. Indonesia also consists of so many islands and more multicultural than Finland have. It proves that there so many schools in every rural area in Indonesia which far from government services, while in Finland, their education is being organizing very well, and schools in the rural area has the same facilities with the school in the cities. In Indonesia, schools are typically located in the cities much more better than schools located in the rural areas. Schools in the cities has many teachers than in the rural areas, moreover, the number of qualified teachers is not evenly distributed in rural area. And of course the facilities are also more better than in the rural area. And actually it's not because we're have the different in geographical case, I mean no matter how kind of our geographical, if our government would be able to reach and serve every single thing that rural area needed, everything would be going very well.
Comparing the quality of teachers, all teachers in Finland are master and PhD graduates while in Indonesia are just mainly bachelors. In Finland, only top tier students who are diligent, smart, and have passion can be accepted to be teachers, and only teacher who graduated from top 10 best university can be accepted to be teachers. So, imagine if Indonesia follows the Finland's education rule, whereas there are so many teacher in Indonesia are just mainly bachelor, and it means there's only some of then who are masters and PhD graduates. If teachers in Indonesia should be master graduates, there would be a lot of bachelors from education faculties who cannot be a teacher, they should have take the master education first, meanwhile to become a master and PhD graduates in Indonesia would need a lot of money.
How it would be if there's no examination in Indonesian education system ?
In Indonesia, each level of education the students must follow the national exam which determined whether they will continue to the next education or not. however in Finland the students follow the national exam only in the end of the senior high school as the way to continue their education to the university. But in other hand I believe that examination is still necessary in Indonesia. Especially for National Exam (Ujian Nasional). National exam is needed to measure how effective and successful our education system is in different province in Indonesia. By seeing the result, we would know which provinces perform well and which that don't. Then, the government will be able to evaluate the result and ideally figure out which province that need more help and extra attention to increase their education. So, it's really important to take an examination. Moreover, today's National Examination is not to determined the graduation, so the student won't feel so stressful. And if there's no examination I'm sure there would so many student ignore the education, and disregard toward study.
So, in this case, no matter how effective Finland's educational system is, it doesn't mean that Indonesia can adopt those methods. We just too different in so many aspect. According to me, the thing the should Indonesian do is change our mindset through everything, because so many people Especially in rural area, they assume that educational is only for getting the diploma (Ijazah) so it can be very useful to get a work and make some money. That's so tragic because we all know that education is no other than for improve our abilities and skill to get a better person, a better place, and a better country.
So this is very important, if we just adopt the system without changing our mindset, education in Indonesia will getting more complex.
But hopefully education in Indonesia will get better and better . and hope I will get a chance to do something better for this country.
THANK YOU !
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