01/02/2015
“A key to that is education. Finns do not really
exist outside of Finland,” says Sahlberg. “This
drives people to take education more
seriously. For example, nobody speaks this
funny language that we do. Finland is
bilingual, and every student learns both
Finnish and Swedish. And every Finn who
wants to be successful has to master at least
one other language, often English, but she
also typically learns German, French, Russian
and many others. Even the smallest children
understand that nobody else speaks Finnish,
and if they want to do anything else in life,
they need to learn languages.”
What can we as South African's learn from
this statement?