I really enjoyed elements of this book and definitely pulled out some strategies for my fifth grade classroom. However, I don’t teach like Finland because I’m not in an environment that allows it. I wish I didn’t live in a high poverty state where the people making our educational decisions haven’t been inside a classroom since they were in school, but I do. The reality is, we don’t teach like Finland because we aren’t Finland. I wish we could be more like them, but it will take much more than 33 strategies to change my state’s schools.