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  Finland is top. It's an interesting system and a study of it would cause many of us to re-think some of our own prejudices. Here are some reasons:
  
  1. Children only start school at 7.
  2. All teachers are required by law to possess a master's degree.
  3. Streaming was abolished in the 1980s and all secondary schools are now comprehensives.
  4. There are only a tiny handful of private schools and these are not allowed to charge fees.
  5. Teaching of foreign languages starts at 7 and by the time the brightest leave university at 21, they will be proficient in Finnish, Swedish, German, English and Russian. 69% of all Finns speak three or more languages fluently.
  6. The system is not geared to generating a highly educated elite but a well-educated whole population. If you aren't literate and numerate by the time you reach the end of primary school, you stay down. Hence, very few do.
  7. Finnish teenagers do not gain a badge of respect from their peers for failure or bad behaviour.
  8. The number of pupils deemed to have special needs is very small.

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