Finnish children are very relaxed and free to learn, and their learning tasks are not heavy, but their performance in various international education level assessments is not backward. Singapore's strict education makes it among the best in mathematics, reading and science, and its exam-oriented education is comparable to quality education. Finland and Singapore are well-deserved education leaders. Singapore often takes the first place, but Finland rarely falls out of the top few, and is the "big brother" in Europe and America.
Japan is stuck between Singapore and Finland, but Singapore and Finland, as the ultimate embodiment of eastern and western education models, represent two completely different paths-one is strict, the other is relaxed, the other is exam-oriented education, and the other is quality education. It's really hard to compare. The best education is connected at the core and spiritual level, "harmony but difference".
Singapore can win the PISA championship, which shows that exam-oriented education has advantages. Singapore has done well in mathematics, reading and science, and even international educational organizations have rated the academic level of Singaporean children as two academic years ahead of the world average.
Finnish children may be as relaxed and happy as Singaporean children's academic pressure; Diversion, which once prevailed in Singapore for half a century, has just been abandoned in Finland. Finland is a small western country, but its class time is the shortest in the world-five days a week, up to six hours a day. Finnish students have very little homework, and teachers will try to control it within half an hour.