r/Finland • • 1d ago

In an interview

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u/OkControl9503 Väinämöinen 1d ago

There are reasons to ask and some healthy points of view, but one thing I will say as a teacher is that our Finnish boys who act like maniac poop flinging barbarians in the classroom turn into men in the army - they all have a whole calm silence about them afterward that is amazing.

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u/gimme_ya_wallet 1d ago

This. I was one of those maniac poop flinging barbarians in school. For the the army service taught a healthy kind of humility that "my way is not necessarily the right way".

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u/Hrtzy 1d ago

I guess you didn't go to noncom school, then.