New lanark kindergarten. The earliest preschool education institution in the world is the preschool class founded by British utopian socialist Owen in 1802, and the earliest preschool education institution in the world is the preschool class in new lanark. Preschool education is an education that parents and kindergarten teachers use various methods and objects to stimulate the brains of preschool children systematically and scientifically, so as to gradually improve the functions of all parts of the brain.