Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers

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I too feel that the UK education system is misguided, in that they are focusing on the wrong things. Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers by Lucy Crehan has been named as one of The Economist’s books of the year for 2016. take the opportunity to go and have a look at countries around the world and see what it is like in those schools.

So, if so much learning goes on externally of the school environment, how can we fairly compare schools/systems against each other? If you would like to learn more about what cookies are and how we use them, visit our cookie policy page.Besides explaining the linguistic advantages Finland enjoys by having a language with great orthographic transparency (I’m sure you don’t need me to explain) and a heritage of reading – even in the sixteenth century you weren’t allowed to marry in Finland unless you could read a section of religious text – the author explains that Finns achieve impressive reading results perhaps because of, rather than in spite of, starting school at a later age. The conservatory can be accessed from both the kitchen and the dining room and enjoys pleasant views of the rear garden whilst offering an additional reception space.

I read a lot of reports and studied a lot of graphs, but they didn’t give me any idea about what education actually looked like in each place, only about what policies were ‘officially’ followed (I know from experience that these are not the same thing).Yet, whilst it is academic and analytical as required, it is very much a personal odyssey – and all the more engaging a read as a consequence.