Good catch! I did go to sleep thinking "I did not explain the difference very well did I ?"
But once you get to 02h00 it's probably time to go to sleep.
l think indeed Finnish education has blurred that line for you and it might have given you a different outlook because they indeed do things differently.
My experience is with education systems in Belgium, Spain and what I read about the US system, or Ted videos from ken Robinson.
All of these systems seem to focus mainly on transferring knowledge and figuring out the one right answer to the professors' question.
It is very focussed on compliance with authority. Basically styled on old Prussian military values .
Ironically the military this day and age seems to focus much more on the ability to individual problem solving and critical thinking.
I think this article from Tony Wagner sums it up well :
http://www.tonywagner.com/7-survival-skills
(suspicious there's always seven , but a good start...)
How does that translate into business life?
Say you are a banker, lawyer, accountant, civil engineer or doctor even... and most of your job consists of repetitive procedural work, filling out forms, doing the same steps over and over... then you are an overpaid human "computer".
Here in Spain, especially after the crisis, people have it in their head that the public sector jobs are safe. ( they spend years studying for entrance exams !) Because they saw after the 2008 crisis that private salaries went down 40-60% and most public sector workers were not affected.
But the public sector is basically bankrupt ! Most of these jobs are paper shuffling(very inefficiently l might add), stuff a 16 year old can write an app for.
Already you see some department getting privatised, guess what the first move is going to be?
I'll think up some more but I guess this needs to be my next article...
I've had education in other countries as well, but it might be that I've learned what to focus on in studying from the Finnish system. However, the situation is the same in Finland that people use many years to get to their choice of university. The average is 3 years before you get there. I heard that in Spain pretty much everyone gets to try university, but many loose their place when they don't perform. In Finland you just need to try entrance exams until you get in. I did not get in on my first try for example. That system is ridiculous, but I don't really know how it could be made better.
And I agree, some professions will just be filled with computers, because an AI can do excel faster. etc.