ESTONIA'S EDUCATION EXPERIMENT WILL BE A LESSON FOR EUROPE

摘要

Estonia Is seeking to burnish its long-established reputation as tech-savvy E-stonia, by teaching children computer coding from the age of seven. The tiny Baltic country of 1.3 million people has long led the way on issues like e-government and e-health. When Estonia won its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, its economy produced very little and people went hungry following the collapse of the Soviet economy and food and goods distribution systems. The factories of capital Tallinn were like museums of obsolete industrial technology.