The myth of the «Swedish education miracle»
(WorldNews Sweden)

The Swedish model is not especially efficient or good, but it is the one that has pushed as far as possible the post-authoritarian logic in modern European education. A portrait painting of Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, by Pierre-Paul Prud`hon, 1793. Wikicommons/Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. Public domain. When it comes to education, the public debate in France, as in Germany, seems to have taken a very cartoonish shape. It´s reached the point where we can predict almost exactly how the debate will go. The discussion will start with someone from the left wing highlighting Sweden as being the model to follow. A country which supposedly achieved high results while giving more room to creativity,...