{"id":228,"date":"2007-02-15T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T11:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-10-04T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:20:08","slug":"228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"hi robin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

a few days ago my friend robin appeared on national television in new zealand, and the interview was available on the internet as well, so i had a chance to view it.<\/p>\n

\"robin<\/a><\/p>\n

i feel the urge to inform you that i took about 20 random snapshots of the video, and this was the best one i could get.<\/p>\n

anyway. here<\/a> is the file for those of you who would like to view robin being interviewed on new zealand tv.<\/p>\n

let me give you a brief summary. robin is wearing a black suit and is being interviewed as the president of the post primary teacher’s association<\/a>. the interviewer wants to hear arguments for the state to invest more into teaching and robin delivers, bundled with a lot of mumbo jumbo. the main point being that 30+ students per class makes it impossible to establish personal relationships with the students. and since the state wants a “move to personalized environment”, something needs to be done. (more teachers, more money, i suppose.)<\/p>\n

to further argue his case, robin tells that in finland<\/em> (yes, finland!), you need at least a master’s degree to teach in any area of education and they (we) only choose about 15% of the applicants. well ain’t that a bold statement! it sure wasn’t hard for me to become a substitute teacher while still being in high school (gymnasium). as for the 15%, according to the \u00c3\u00a5bo akademi statistics<\/a> (representative for the swedish-speaking minority), 88% of the applicants 2006 were admitted. somehow i doubt the situation for the rest of the country should be very different.<\/p>\n

but hey, who the hell cares, robin mentioned finland on new zealand television!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a few days ago my friend robin appeared on national television in new zealand, and the interview was available on the internet as well, so i had a chance to view it. i feel the urge to inform you that i took about 20 random snapshots of the video, and this was the best one … Continue reading hi robin!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40,146,41,39],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-education","tag-english","tag-new-zealand","tag-robin-duff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}