Early childhood education is a kind of quality education aimed at promoting children's all-round, healthy and harmonious development, rather than one-sided education focusing on one aspect such as intellectual development. Research shows that what can really help children adapt to school life is not the academic knowledge and skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic acquired in pre-school, but the social communication ability and good learning interests and habits.
Social development and the cultivation of good learning interests and habits are not tasks that can be completed overnight, but tasks that run through the pre-school period. Therefore, early childhood education should take promoting children's comprehensive and healthy physical and mental development as the starting point, and prepare children for entering primary schools, not just limited to the training of reading, writing and arithmetic knowledge and skills.
The importance of preschool education:
1. Promote children's growth and improve their physical fitness: children's bodies are developing rapidly, and children feel the strength of their own bodies and show this strength in constant activities. On the other hand, their bodies are still immature, their movements are not coordinated, their self-protection ability is still poor, and they are vulnerable to diseases and accidents.
2. Early childhood is the best period of intellectual development: research shows that early childhood is the fastest period of brain development. The brain is closely related to intelligence. Therefore, in the period of children's rapid brain development, early education has a great influence on intelligence. If children are properly educated in the right way in this period, their intelligence level can be obviously improved.
3. Early childhood is the key period of sound personality: in early childhood, children's personality quality begins to sprout and gradually form. At this time, their plasticity is strong, and their self-evaluation has not been established. They often evaluate themselves through the evaluations of their parents and teachers. Therefore, preschool education plays an important role in the formation of children's personality quality.