"The country that invented the computer is throwing away its great computer heritage by failing to teach programming in schools."

“The country that invented the computer is throwing away its great
computer heritage by failing to teach programming in schools. I was
flabbergasted to learn that today computer science isn’t even taught
as standard in UK schools ... Your IT curriculum focuses on
teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it is
made."
 Eric Schmidt (Google):

http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/facs-dec13.pdf