Countless families are more willing to send their children abroad to study, in the hope that their children can get a better education.

Is foreign education really that good? Or what is foreign culture like?

The recently hit Foreign Childhood focused on foreign education, which attracted widespread attention as soon as it was broadcast. At the same time, many people began to doubt and worry about our education system.

Childhood in a foreign land

The planner of this documentary is Zhou Yijun himself. As a mother, out of concern for her children's education, she began to study and make this documentary.

She believes that "our generation will be different from their predecessors in values and educational methods, and we must find a new language to communicate with the next generation."

In the course of her research, she visited five countries to experience the classroom from the perspective of children and feel different educational methods from the perspective of parents. Based on different cultural backgrounds, I have reflected on education again and again.

First, she came to Finland, a Nordic country with a population of less than 5 million, but known as "the most powerful country in education".

Finland has always been among the best in the triennial PISA test, but in Finland, children spend less time studying than in other countries. What is even more surprising is that in Finland, there are no exams, no rankings, and even graduation exams can be taken selectively.

We believe that hanging out the rankings can improve students' learning enthusiasm and enhance their competitiveness; However, for Finland, the key is to avoid competition and pursue equality for all.

The purpose of Finnish education has never been to cultivate "winners", but to cultivate "good people", and everyone is equally excellent. The concept of success for children is "having a wife and having some money".

In this educational concept, there is no competition, the society is mild and relaxed, and everyone can have his own areas that he is not good at, and he will gradually discover his strengths in other areas.

Painting is not to compare who paints better, but to express oneself. Tolerance and encouragement are the biggest features of their education. Finland emphasizes giving students full freedom. You can wear fancy clothes to class, you can listen to class while pulling snacks, and you can always lie down when you are tired.

Compared with our education, we have been accused of "doing this and that" since childhood, and even compared with others, the disadvantage has become an advantage. How can you say that you don't envy Finland's education model?

Finland also pays attention to cultivating the relationship between children and nature. It is very important for them to cherish nature. In addition, they can take any course in the forest, and the content of the course is mostly game-like, so understanding nature becomes the main purpose.

The distribution of educational resources in Finland is the most important reason why Finland can achieve such high educational achievements. Their educational resources are evenly and reasonably distributed. Government investment in every school is the same. If you want to ask which school is the best, the answer is the nearest.

If Finland's education is moderate and relaxed, then India's education is a very creative "Jugaad culture"

In our impression, India has always been labeled as "backward" and "poor", but it is precisely because of this confusion and lack of resources that they have the thinking of "looking for substitutes", and India has trained many elites in business and technology.

On the other hand, India has a strong sense of self-expression, which is very different from China's education system. You can see that in China's class, few students raise their hands to answer questions, but in Indian class, even though his ideas are ridiculous and strange, he still wants to express his views.

Of course, in India, a country with a well-defined caste, a few resources are concentrated on high-caste children, while education is another scene for other children.

They use the internet to study, and "school in the cloud" is a teaching method of children's self-organizing learning environment. The expected school is the only way for them to find hope.

Besides, in British education, you can see the importance attached to etiquette and sports, as well as children's views on society. Children pay attention to the changes of society and times since childhood, encourage them to design programs to help the disabled, and pay attention to the cultivation of their practical ability.

Israel, which is dominated by Jews, is second only to the United States in its creative ability, with the highest proportion of university education and the highest per capita patent.

Failure is not a bad thing for them. Teenagers have wisdom and maturity beyond their peers. They do engineering, program robots, take charge of projects and find sponsors. For them, failure is synonymous with near success. "questioning everything" is an important part of them.

After reading the educational methods and systems of so many countries, it is not difficult to find that the level of national economic development will affect the educational level and mode of the country to a certain extent. Excellent education will promote the development of national economy and the progress of the country.

Love and tolerance are the most important purposes of education, and the pursuit of grades and exam-oriented education are always the main goals, which loses the significance of education.