First, serious over-education. At present, a common phenomenon is that preschool children have to attend various classes and extra-long classes in addition to kindergarten. It can be said that today's children have a heavy learning burden from birth. In fact, the best early education is to let children have fun and be happy.

Therefore, we must let children have the remaining time and energy, and let them fully display their playful nature. Preschool children can't be arranged at the same time as school children (especially children aged 0-3), so children should fully enjoy a happy childhood.

Second, complex knowledge education. Some people think that the task of early education is to let children read early, learn more literacy, learn arithmetic early, learn foreign languages early and so on. This is not correct. I believe that literacy and arithmetic are indeed the foundation of a person's development, but the foundation of a person's development should be comprehensive and should not be limited to literacy and arithmetic.

If one aspect is overemphasized, such as strengthening literacy and learning arithmetic, it must be at the expense of other aspects. In addition, there are some other misunderstandings in early education, such as attaching importance to wisdom and neglecting morality, attaching importance to specialty development and neglecting all-round development, attaching importance to knowledge and neglecting ability, attaching importance to physical health and neglecting mental health, and attaching importance to nutrition and health care and neglecting physical exercise.

Reporter: Since early education does not advocate a lot of mechanical indoctrination, what is the main task of early education?

Zhao: In my opinion, the task of early education mainly includes three aspects: one is to cultivate good living habits, the other is to learn the mother tongue well, and the third is to enrich perceptual knowledge and master common sense of life.

In the pre-school stage, the most important thing is to let children master the common sense of life, which is a direct experience. Reading after class, the book is about indirect experience. From the perspective of epistemology, if you want to master a lot of indirect experience, you must first master a lot of direct experience, so that you can better understand the indirect experience of others. Common sense of life is perceptual knowledge, and the richer the perceptual knowledge.

After learning rational knowledge from books, you will have a better understanding. Therefore, it is contrary to epistemology to let children read or read too early and instill some abstract knowledge instead of enriching their perceptual knowledge first.