Law of Jante: 8 surprising facts about education in Norway

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We are trying to feed their children more tasty, dress warmly, carried out in the school and instruct better, higher, stronger, and in Norway, young people are trained to self-restraint, responsibility and... the ability to keep a low profile, a prisoner in the Law of Jante.

And this parenting style adhere to a greater or lesser extent, all the families in the country. it - Norwegian corporate style, the intricacies of which we try to understand.

Law of Jante

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Do not think you're special.
Do not think you're a match for us.
Do not think that you are smarter than us.
Do not imagine that you're better than us.
Do not think that you know more than us.
Do not think that you are more important to us.
Do not think that you are almighty.
You should not laugh at us.
Do not think that someone you have to deal with.
Do not think you can teach us.

10 These rules - the so-called Law of Jante (Janteloven) - in 1933 he formulated the Danish writer Aksel Sandemose in the novel "Fugitive crosses his mark." The novel is set in the fictional town Yante inhabited mainly by workers. They live in equality, which guarantees a set of unwritten rules. Any attempt to violate them is punishable by public contempt.

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Today, the 10 commandments Yante boil down to one: Do not think you're special. Therefore in Norway It has been taken to attract attention, to show off, or to emphasize their achievements.

There is no bad weather

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Norwegians joke when a man clad in rubber boots, so he's a local. Local leave the house ready for anything - the rain, snow, storm or even a tornado, which is not yet in sight. Young Norwegians with a kindergarten are taught to be friends with the weather. It is not accepted to complain about the weather: if you are to blame on her, so stupid and do not know how to dress properly.

How to dress children, mothers and fathers tell at parents' meetings. For example, a single mother, came to Norway from another country, a teacher of elementary grades warned that its child at recess will sit in a puddle, so it must be equipped in a waterproof suit.

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On my mother's question "why?" teacher reasonably exclaimed: "Well, he's a baby!" In any weather, even in heavy rain and wind, children in kindergartens and schools must walk: here believe that that running, jumping and "airing brains", a child rests, adjustable to the next lesson and stored health.

"Green prescription"

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Even if the child's temperature is 38 degrees, that is no reason to disturb the doctor. The child runny nose? He still goes to the garden, or in the school, where clean and drips into the nose drops. And yes, walking on the street. And the common cold - without temperature - the doctor is likely to prescribe "Green prescription": Recommendation of a walk in the woods.
Medicine in Norway is based on the principle that the rescue of drowning - the handiwork of drowning. And if you complain about health, then admit that lazy and irresponsible. Not tempered, not in sports, properly dressed - that's sick. Himself to blame.

Style a la kale

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On environmental lessons (in our opinion on the "Fundamentals of Health") attributed to children, how to dress according to the weather forecast. For example, if the street below ten below zero, should be dressed like cabbage.

The first layer is adjacent to the body: thin pants (such as our gamashek), sweater or jacket of a thin coat or flisa. Second layer - a dress or jeans with Raglan-sweatshirt. The third layer - easy termokombinezon, hat, helmet and gloves. Yes - and the main thing! - rubber insulated boots.

Million Dollar Smile

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In Norway, the teeth - the head of everything. Here it is taken very carefully monitor the milk and indigenous. Moms begin brushing your child's teeth as soon as the cuts in the first cutter, and already "toothed" Kids are often prescribed tablets with fluorine. By the way, candy and chocolate young Norwegians see less than the northern lights.

Cold sandwiches and nuts banned

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In school, young Norwegian "rodents science" walk by themselves without adult supervision. Besides weighty backpack, each scholar carries with it a package with lunch: hot meals in Norwegian schools are not provided. What's in the lunch boxes? Cold sandwiches, pies stuffed with meat, fruit, yogurt. A snack can be during a half-hour break between lessons. Your lunch Norwegian schoolchildren modestly chewing at the wall.

Sweet to take with you to school is strictly forbidden: no soft drinks, candy, cookies, chocolates. By the way, the nuts - is also taboo, because of they may be allergic. All schools and kindergartens hang signs: Nut free zone ( "Free from nuts zone").

On the day of birth - sausage

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In the children's birthdays made to adhere to the standard menu: hot dogs, pizza and dessert (usually a cake, although sometimes sweet children only carrots, apples and raisins).
Incidentally, in the invitations to the children's party not only indicate where and when to come, but also announce the menu, as well as point (!) The expected value of a gift. Can not exceed the limit so as not to embarrass the family on a budget.
Be prepared - be like everyone else!

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In the Norwegian school, none of the young Viking should not be allocated. There are no diaries, and on Monday the teacher gives children ukeplan - plan lessons for a week. It specifies homework and letters to parents.
Imagine that before the seventh grade children do not put the evaluation - not to traumatize the children. For Norwegian education is important to a strong tightened weak, and then all get the same funny smiley stickers. The average temperature in the hospital :)

And if you stand out, that is, "show off", you can ignore or troll. In Norwegian schools students have even a special status - meggler. It is the duty pupil who acts as an intermediary in resolving conflicts between classmates. The tranquility, the absence of aggression, harmony and stability - the basic values ​​for the Norwegians of all ages.
P.S. At the University of Oslo, you can even get an education on the prevention of conflicts. Analogues in the world this course not.

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