"Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's director of education and the creator of the Pisa tests, rejects this analysis.
"In the 1960s, Finland was an average performer at best and that was when it had a very traditional education system," says Mr Schleicher.
"Finland changed its system only in the late 1970s and 1980s and that's when we saw the results rise. The most recent decline is quite modest," he said."
Canada kills Finland in what?
By the way, do you know what these tests are, how they are made, their strengths and drawbacks, or are you just looking at numbers? Do you really think that somewhere like Hong Kong would have a superior education system if their results were higher than countries like Finland? Is passing a flawed exam the sole measure of a successful education system?