The significance of preschool education to individual development means that preschool education can promote preschool children's healthy, comprehensive and harmonious development in physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects. Preschool period is an important period of life development, and the environment and education quality of this period directly affect children's future development. Therefore, as an education in the early stage of life, we should strive to provide suitable and beneficial early experience for children and lay a good foundation for their lifelong sustainable development. (1) Preschool education can induce the development of normal children. ① Preschool education restricts the level and direction of children's development. The problem between preschool education and children's development is a complex dynamic process of interaction and mutual restriction, which plays an inductive role in the development of normal children and is a necessary condition for their development. The upbringing experience of a child in the first few years after birth has a decisive influence on his later intellectual development. ② Preschool education affects the process of children's socialization. Compared with other factors that affect the socialization of preschool children, kindergarten education undoubtedly plays a core and leading role in the process of children's socialization.

(2) Preschool education can promote the development of abnormal children. Preschool education not only has a decisive influence on the development of normal children, but also promotes the development of mentally retarded children.