[Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Raimo,
I agree with you 100% - provided the education is of sufficiently good
quality it is the best investment a country can ever make.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Raimo K
<raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi>wrote:

> Sure, there is no free lunch - or education - and in Finland it's the
> taxpayers who pay - not the students or their parents.
> We think that this is a good way of educating the next generations,
>
> All the best!
> Raimo K
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: philippe.amard
> To: Leica Users Group
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 7:38 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim
>
> Alice is a school inspector here and went on a professional trip to
> Finland this month to discover and marvel on how effective their
> education sytem is - extremely limited drop out rate, happy students
> and teachers, and a definite asset for or stake on the country's
> future. We may have to learn from them, whatever the taxes.
> Philippe
>
>
> Le 23 mars 12 ? 00:02, Ken Carney a ?crit :
>
>  Not too sure about the free part. According to my BNA country  portfolio
>> on Finland, the marginal tax rate (national, local,  municipal and church
>> taxes) hits about 50% on income between ?38,000  and 66,000 and is over 
>> 55%
>> on income in excess of ?66,000. Then  there is a VAT. I'm not going to
>> complain on April 15 this year!
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> On 3/22/2012 2:07 AM, Raimo K wrote:
>>
>>> Well, university education is free in Finland (like all other  education
>>> as well).
>>> The Americans may call it socialism (but it isn't), we call it  equal
>>> opportunities.
>>> In the future we may have to charge tuition fees from students  outside
>>> the EU, though.
>>> All the best!
>>> Raimo K
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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