So, let’s look at ____ opportunities. All education in Finland is free at all levels and rich and poor ____ in the same schools. Most students stay in the same local school – usually the one nearest to their home – from the ages of seven to sixteen. There is very little difference between schools in terms of standards, and the schools themselves never use ____. Streaming, which is similar to ____, is where students in the same year at school are ____ groups of a similar level or ability. And those groups stay together for all lessons. The idea of streaming is that if all the students in the class are of a similar ____, teachers can give the right level of help for students to improve. The second value is trust. Both students and teachers are given the ____ to do their jobs. Students have very little homework and are trusted to learn for themselves. For teachers, there is a general guide to what must be ____ in class, but they have a lot of choice about what to teach. Unlike some countries, the government doesn’t ____ individual teachers or schools. It sets some tests for students, to check the general standard of learning but it doesn’t use these tests to ____ the best and worst schools. The idea of learning ____ is the third important part of the Finnish education system. In other words, ____ people to see learning as important for their whole life. Finns see the first few years of childhood as being the ____ time to create an interest in learning. Parents are given free books to read to their young children. There is also free nursery education with lots of activities and play that encourage children to explore the world around them. Children start primary school and lessons in reading and writing when they are seven. The hope is that by this stage they ____ about learning.

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