COMPARING EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDONESIA AND FINLAND

COMPARING EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDONESIA AND FINLAND

OUTLINE

        I.            Thesis statement: Indonesia as a growing country has a similarities and differences about education system with Finland.

     II.            Body

1.      Compulsory education and the progress report of system education in Indonesia and Finland.

A.     Compulsory education

B.     Progress report

2.      Although the education system in Indonesia and Finland have the similarities but they also have the big differences in teaching method, uniform, national exam, and teacher.

A.     Teaching method

B.     Uniform

C.     National exam

D.     Teacher

   III.            Conclusion

The education system in Finland is the good system which is not only guide and teach the students to develop their abilities but also build the good student’ character through the good system and qualified teachers. That’s why Finland is country with the best education system in the world. Indonesia have to adopt the education system of Finland in order to make Indonesia can create the smart and characterized people by a good education system.

COMPARING EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDONESIA AND FINLAND

Good education system is the most important thing for human being. It gives the people a new knowledge and keeps good relationship with others. It also can be used as a map to determine the future of people because with the good level education they will get a better job. As what happen in Finland, the country is with the best education system in the world.  Indonesia as a growing country has a similarities and differences about education system with Finland.

Compulsory education and the progress report of system education in Indonesia and Finland are almost same. Finland requires all the people to get education up to college in order to make them get it the government free up the education cost from primary school to college. Similar with Indonesia, the government requires the people to get the education and the government also free up the education cost to them even just until high school. Another similarity is when the end of semester both the schools in Finland and Indonesia will invite the parents of the students come to the school to get the information about the progress of students and discuss the next step that will be applied to teach the students related to the report of previous semester.

Although the education system in both of Indonesia and Finlad has the similarities but they also have the big differences in teaching method, uniform, national exam, and teacher. The teaching method in Indonesia is dominated by one direction method like lecture that make students bored and difficult to follow the learning process. Students also get a lot of homework that make they can not enjoy their free time at home because they have to do the homework. On the other hand, in Finland teachers apply “the learning is fun” method with create the good atmosphere in the classroom so the students will enjoy the learning process. For example, the teacher lets students to do group discussion, give them the motivation and never give them homework. The other difference is about uniform. In Indonesia the government decides to distinguish uniform in each level of education. In contrast, the government of Finland gives freedom to students in wearing the uniform to school. Other area of difference between education system in these countries is national exam. In Indonesia in each level of education the students must follow the national exam which determined they will continue to next education level 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. The final difference is in Indonesia the teachers just graduated S1, but in Finland the teachers have to finish their postgraduate education and only ten best graduates who can be a teacher.

In conclusion, the education system in Finland is the best system which is not only guide and teach the students to develop their abilities but also build the good student’ character through the good system and qualified teachers. That’s why Finland is country with the best education system in the world. Indonesia have to adopt the education system in Finland in order to make Indonesia can create the smart and characterized people by a good education system.