Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd of some 350 people at Burlington City Hall last night, Senator Bernie Sanders thanked Ambassador Pekka Lintu of Finland for visiting Vermont to discuss what Sanders called “one of the best economic and social models in the world.” The ambassador met with students and faculty at the University of Vermont, where he focused on education. He lunched with business leaders, and in the evening the senator and ambassador appeared at the packed town hall meeting.
“We should do our very best to learn as much as possible about the best kind of economic and social models that exist throughout the world and, where these models make sense, we should see how we can adopt them to this state and this country. This is especially true today when the United States faces so many difficult problems,” Sanders said.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=295332
To read about Finland’s education system in The Wall Street Journal, click here.
To read about Finland’s education system in The Wall Street Journal, click here.
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Great for Bernie to look at the success of Finland's education and try to use it here in the US. Problem is Finland has the hold package that makes education work. It starts with a child born. That child takes on the habits of the family, then school and then the community as so on. Look at America now. Children in a play ground are clueless to color or status. At that stage their all equal. Then their taught or copy what they see and hear. We have to start cleaning up the total system of American and it's behavior not just schools. We teach our children to read, respect and look for careers in life. What do they really see adults doing. TV shows with hate racism, Paris/Britney/Ashley as role models, Law Makers being cheered for hiring prostitutes, men in men's rooms/molesting kids. We see our President/VP openly lie for 7 years. Greed rules America as we see crooks in the Administration get jobs while honest people lose their jobs and homes. Wal Mart is so greedy then take for a woman who relives the death of her son in Iraq everyday. Once honest reporters openly lie. We have lost the United States Justice System. We have Supreme Court Justices who are gay, have mistress, a crazy man and one who sees dead people. We see our Law Makers are back stabbing each other and turning their backs on the American people and the US Constitution. Our children see a great Governor who worked hard for the people of his State of Alabama go to jail on fake charges done by the Justice Department because of Politics. It's like cleaning one spot and leaving the rest of the room dirty, don't worry that spot will get dirty again as it grows.
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