The essential difference between preschool education and primary education is that kindergarten is an institution that pays equal attention to education and protection, with games as the main form of activities, and children mainly engage in flexible, free and interesting activities. Teachers have less constraints on children and are not as standardized as school education. Primary schools are institutions that implement compulsory education. Taking classes as the main form of activities, it is necessary to carry out systematic cultural knowledge education in accordance with the teaching plan, syllabus and teaching materials uniformly stipulated by the state to meet certain quality requirements.

Kindergarten should not only provide children with comprehensive and harmonious enlightenment education, but also provide children with care and upbringing in life. Primary schools should carry out purposeful and planned comprehensive and sustainable education in morality, intelligence and physique according to certain training objectives and curriculum standards. Each course has clear and specific teaching objectives and requirements. It also pays special attention to students' interest in learning, curiosity, thirst for knowledge and the formation of good moral behavior habits and study habits. Kindergarten curriculum is comprehensive, organically integrating the contents of various fields and presenting them in a thematic way. Primary school curriculum is mainly divided into subjects, such as Chinese, English, mathematics, nature, physical fitness, singing, art and so on. , as well as various interest activities and inquiry activities.