In Italy, one might think that there are too few teachers, but in fact the situation is different. According to the latest Eurostat Report for 2022, our country boasts one of the best student-teacher ratios in Europe. In the school system as a whole, from elementary to high school, there are on average 10.4 pupils per teacher, while the European average is 12.1. This figure is fairly stable for both the first cycle of education (10.8) and the second cycle (10.0). As highlighted by an analysis of the Skuola.net portal, only a few nations have a better ratio, mostly small countries in terms of territory and population, such as Greece (8.3), Luxembourg (8.5), Malta (8.7), Liechtenstein (8.8), Croatia (8.9), Norway (9.5) and Belgium (9.9). Above ten pupils per teacher are Austria (10.1), Portugal (10.2), and Cyprus (10.3). What is even more interesting is that the large European nations, with which we are often compared, have less favorable student-teacher ratios. France, for example, has 15 students per teacher, placing second to last, preceded only by the Netherlands, where there are as many as 16 students per professor. Also behind Italy are countries such as Finland (12.7), often considered a global educational model, Germany (13.3) and Spain (11.3).