Finnish education policies are highly praised,

''The big lesson from the world's best school system? Trust your teachers

Finnish education policies are highly praised, but the real success is the level of responsibility and autonomy given to teachers to do their jobs''

Different people from different backgrounds and experiences hold differing views.

Educators do, undeniably, mould little human beings into whatever they, a government and even their parents hope or demand they will become.

The main point of fee-paying schools, world-wide, is to teach the children of the rich and connected the art of superiority.

So that, with the right kind of accent, opinions and their connections/money, they will maintain their positions of power over the rest of us, whether or not they have any intelligence or empathy with their fellow human beings at all.

The only difference these days is that they will also scour the country and the world for the brightest among us, whatever their background, who they recognise will, if they are brought on side, further the needs and the desires of the rich.

If they didn't bend to this concession, the brightest among us may, at some stage and in some way, become a threat to the ones who feel they are 'superior', later in life.

we need to start to re-frame the human experience through a different metric? Maybe we need to start thinking foremost of human happiness rather than human wealth, and tackling the misguided notion that human wealth leads to human happiness.

Now, no doubt some wealth can reduce certain sufferings. But beyond the very extremes, even then some suffering can lead to positive things. Historically working class people had a stronger sense of community, of camaraderie, of watching out for each other etc. As someone who deeply values meaningful, sincere human connections, I really think I'd much rather have that life experience than to live in a gated community with millions, never knowing who my real friends are, and who I can trust or not.

It's very, very complex, I know. Many variables. Many examples and counter-examples. But my point is that the human experience is very rich and deep and expansive. It's not just 'have money, buy big house, have luxury holiday = happiness'. And the striving of all of that has a tendency to rob us of the day to day joys of our current existence. Contentment with what we have and the understanding that, whilst we might not have it Branson, Gates & Epstein, we also don't have it slums, famine etc.

Framing our lives - framing class rooms and childhoods - in terms of wealth might not be the wisest option. Yeah there are advantages to wealth, yeah there are disadvantages to being poorer, but it's also vice-versa, and more focus on the actual life experience of the individual might make everyone feel better about themselves and enjoy their own lives as they are that much more.