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Looking for a Holy Grail, silver bullet, panacea, what have you is a trait shared among the Nordic nations, I'm sad to say.

From the flannellograph to the film projector to the overhead to the computer, whenver a new technology appeared, the theoreticians controlling teacher's ed. and dep. of education have jumped on it as fix-all cure-all.

Because their predeccors in the 1950s adopted whole-hog the ideas of Ellen Key, Maria Montessori, Olga Dysthe, Jean Piaget and Reggio Emilia and... well, the list never ends, does it?

Order, discpline, practice - then it matters little what the medium is.

Pass/fail-exams in order to advance a course. No "75% correct answers is enough". Crafts & trades-schools available for kids from age 15 (make it three years training including driving lessons and a license upon graduation + two years apprenticeship with wages and at age twenty you have a fully trained, epxerienced and well-adjusted [insert name here]).

Anonymous applications for universities - grades, testresults and exams only. Set number of slots for each course, said number decided by the university in question.

And a complete overhaul of the student loan-system.

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