[lxrbst]

The Finnish school system is nice, until you wanna go to college/university.

I think higher education in Finland isn't anything special, if you actually want a quality education you'll have to go abroad (like the actually successful people do here anyway). Even the arguably best schools aren't that good. People mostly coast through them once they get in and just want the piece of paper at the end. Good parties though.

Years later in the work force they'll wake up and see they barely make more money then an electrician with their fancy degree because of the insane tax policies here. What's the point of having a nice degree if you're still gonna have a moderately low salary compared to other European countries?

[e12e]

> What's the point of having a nice degree if you're still gonna have a moderately low salary compared to other European countries?

Interesting comment in a thread about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation...

[simonh]

It's not an either or though. Just because a company generates good extrinsic motivation by paying well, that doesn't mean its impossible for them to also foster intrinsic motivation too. It's really not unreasonable to ask for both.