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The Economist
The Economist
7 Jul 2024


NextImg:The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
Special report | Teachers

The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose

Hanging on to the best of them is getting harder

In a secondary school on the outskirts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a pupil scrawls the solutions to mathematical equations on a whiteboard. His teacher, a young woman, stands at the back helping to guide the student and encouraging his peers to comment. In a chemistry lesson down the corridor, two students race to scribble out formulae for compounds while their classmates offer helpful critiques.

Such cleverness is easy to find in Estonian classrooms: its teenagers rate as the brainiest in Europe. In maths the country’s 15-year-olds post test scores that suggest they are roughly a year ahead of British children, and two years ahead of American ones.