Danes spend 200 hours a year more in school than the average student.

丹麦学生每年在校时间比其他国家的学生多出200小时。

Of 33 developed nations, primary students in Russia have the fewest required instructional hours per year – just over 500 (the international average is 800 hours). This translates to about five hours a day, with breaks between each class, during an eight-month-long schoolyear. But that doesn’t seem to be holding the country back too much: Russia’s universal literacy rate is almost 100%.

在33个发达国家中，俄罗斯小学生每年的课时量是最低的，刚刚超过500个小时（国际平均课时量是800个小时）。这相当于在八个月长的学年里，每天只上约5个小时的课，中间还包括课间休息时间。但这并没有让俄罗斯在教育上落后太多：俄罗斯民众的识字率将近100%。

Then there is Denmark. The country requires primary school students to spend about 1,000 hours a year in class. That’s nearly two more months than Russia, and Denmark has longer schooldays. As a country consistently ranked in the top five for education, however, perhaps Denmark proves there are some benefits to having such a long school year. (Source: OECD)

再来看看丹麦。丹麦要求小学生每年的课时量要达到1000个小时，比俄罗斯多出近2个月，而且丹麦每天上课时间也更长。丹麦的教育水平一直稳居世界五强，也许证明了课时长还是有好处的。（数据来源：经济合作与发展组织）

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