The first primary schools that provided six years of elementary education were founded after the Finnish School Act passed in 1866. Compulsory education was passed as a law in 1921. After the six years obligatory to all, students could apply to payable grammar schools, some of which were co-eds already in the 19th century. Finland reached overall literacy (99% of the people were able to read) in the turn of the 19th century. Teachers graduated from high-grade teaching seminars of four to five years.
The first primary schools that provided six years of elementary education were founded after the Finnish School Act passed in 1866. Compulsory education was passed as a law in 1921. After the six years obligatory to all, students could apply to payable grammar schools, some of which were co-eds already in the 19th century. Finland reached overall literacy (99% of the people were able to read) in the turn of the 19th century. Teachers graduated from high-grade teaching seminars of four to five years.
