Hi everybody. My name is Iina and I study in Helsinki University. I hope that in 3 or 4 years from now, I became a craft teacher.

My idiom is "Joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy" which could be translated "In a group stupidity condenses". I've seen it countless of time when you just became stupid in groups. Think crowds, ideologies or bullying someone in school. Often there is some strong person in the group and he/she can easily dominate others. In that kind of situations people don't necessarily think like they would think in another situation.

Luckily you can also think the idiom another way. Smart ideas, tolerance and knowledge condense too. In a classroom for example students can achieve something that they couldn't do alone. I just read about math enthusiasts (teachers, students ….) who gathered together for a weekend and made an open source study material. They did it because they loved their subject but the point was doing it t o g e t h e r.

Ps. Jouko is also a man's name in Finnish :)

Here is an example in the nature's point of view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY&feature=related