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Every child is special: Expert
Critical of students being confined to the four walls of a school and resorting to learning from just the text books, Finnish educator, scholar and author Petri Lounaskorpi advocated individualisation as the core of a healthy education system and how the process of learning was more important than the outcome.
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Petri was in the city as part of Vidhya Sagar launching a new school adopting Finnish methodology in Pristine Pavillion property of DRA Estates in Mahindra World premises. Speaking to DTNext , Petro said, “Every child is special in their own way. Until a certain age there is no standardised tests in Finnish education system. They are not made to read or write until they are seven,” he said.
Drawing an example from his own experience, Petri said, “A painting by his two-year-old daughter was messy. But her imagination which went into making that work of art is more valued. The system of education believes the process is more important than the outcome.”
Petri has been instrumental in providing training in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) since 1990 and finds pedagogical methods to implement social media in education. “If India had to go the Finnish way of education, they have to understand why and how we adopted such a system,” he said.
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