The chapter offers a perspective on Finnish primary teacher training from the 1860s to the beginning of the 1960s, when primary teacher education began to be academised. The first signs of academisation can be traced to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The beginning of college-form teacher education in 1934 was the turning point towards teacher education located within universities, and the final step towards academic teacher education was taken in the 1970s. The chapter examines the period prior to the final state of academisation. Taking a historical view of processes and debates around the professionalisation of the teaching profession and its relation to academisation, it analyses Finnish Committee Reports which discuss and compare teacher training systems in different Nordic countries. The analysis indicates that despite the close relations between Finland and the other Nordic countries, and although committee members were aware of the situation and characteristics of teacher education in those countries, this proximity is not apparent in the Committee Reports. Only on some occasions did the reports use other Nordic countries as a basis for their own argumentation.