Can we learn anything from educational system in Norway?

The Norwegian curriculum that was published in 1993 was blamed for its poetic approach, and was changed in 2006 to more instrumentalistic.

The curriculum had an ambitious general part. For the first time, a common platform for primary, lower secondary, upper secondary and adult education was presented. The basic values of the core curriculum were expressed through six idealistic portraits:

-       The spiritual human being

-       The creative human being

-       The working human being

-       The liberally-educated human being

-       The social human being

-       The environmentally aware human being

-       And as the result of them all: The integrated human being.

The curriculum ends:

The ultimate aim of education is to inspire individuals to realize their potentials in ways that serve the common good; to nurture humaneness in a society in development.

Sounds all good, but can it work in practice? Norwegian new government in 2006 did not think so and made major amendments to it. But we can at least apply these principles and utilize them in a way that can still change education to the better in other countries.