... not graded and cannot fail, they take their time to complete their work and to make sure that their work is more persistent and done right. The fact that Finnish students are not graded on their work would be a good excuse as to not do exceptionally well on their work, but the idea of actually taking your time to get the work done as best as possible proves that Finns do actually care about the quality of work they turn in. An example of this was brought up in the short essay, "Learning in Finland: No Grades, No Criticism," by David Rothenberg, a philosophy teacher at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in this essay we see Rothenberg complaining about the students taking a long time to turn in the assignments and the response to his complain by a Finnish professor was " 'You see here in Finland, we ...

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