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>Seems to me what they're doing in Bulgaria (and do in other countries as well) is viewing education as job training. I prefer to view it as life training, which means we need a broad base of knowledge. It's easy enough (in a relative sense) to learn what you need to know for a particular job, but to be an educated person, you need to know a lot more.

Hi Tamar,
it is true. We try to prepere children for their future job.
I have possibility to compare knowledge of people who start program in 4-5 class, 8-9 class and as a student.
For first one programing is a nature(game,) for other become a job.
It is more ease to learn programming or language when you are young, then when you are 20 years old.
Competition force us, russians, other Europian country to involve children in job training during their secondary study. When child become 18 years old he/she should be able to work. Most of our students in universities work.