Caitlin Ford

“In most other modern industrialized societies, including Finland, health care is considered a basic human right.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

“In the United States there is both a moral, and to some extent legal, expectation that parents provide for their children even after the children have come of age,” Trägårdh said. “But this expectation also means that parents have power over their children.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

“It’s an unfortunate fact that the United States remains astonishingly backward compared to almost all other advanced Western countries when it comes to education, because in America, what predicts how well a child will do in school is not a child’s aptitude or hard work, but the status of the child’s parents—which is to say, their own levels of education and wealth.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

“Yes, Finland and the United States are different. But consider the fact that most American education is managed by the states. Finland’s population of 5.5 million is easily comparable to many an American state. In fact, more than half of America’s states—thirty of them—have populations smaller than Finland’s. Solely on the question of size, there’s no reason any number of states in the United States couldn’t implement a system just like Finland’s.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life