Here, Bian Xiao can only say, "What most people choose to do is not necessarily right!"
As parents, we don't want our children to lose at the starting line, so intelligent development basically hopes that the sooner the better. It is also the increasingly popular situation of early education institutions in recent years!
However, the fact is that early education is really harmful to children.
Early education is not a necessary condition for cultivating high-level talents.
Germany once tried to change the kindergarten reform from fun to writing and arithmetic, and finally gave up.
The reason is that before the reform, the German government funded a large-scale study. The researchers chose 50 kindergartens featuring early education and 50 traditional kindergartens focusing on fun, and tracked and compared all these children.
At the beginning, it was true that the children in kindergarten had a higher learning level, and this advantage was maintained until the children went to primary school.
However, this advantage did not last forever. By the fourth grade of primary school, the children in early education group not only have no learning advantage, but also have significantly lower grades than those in traditional kindergartens. In addition, the children in the early education group obviously lack social and emotional skills. This is the biggest harm of early education.
Therefore, the German government cancelled the plan to reform kindergartens.
A study in the United States shows that children in the early education group are more likely to have friction with others, more likely to commit crimes and less likely to get married.
During the period of 1967, the researchers randomly assigned the children of 68 poor families in Michigan to the traditional game-based kindergarten and the kindergarten where teachers taught directly.
In order to ensure the effect, the researchers also went to their home once every two weeks to teach parents how to educate their children according to the style of kindergarten. The study continued until these children reached the age of 23.
Academic performance: the early education group had an advantage at first, and it was quickly wiped out. But the most striking finding of this study is children's ability to communicate with others.
Behavior quality: By the age of 15, children in early education group have twice as many behaviors against school discipline as children in traditional group; By the age of 23, 13.5% of people in the traditional group had been arrested for crimes, while the proportion in the early education group was as high as 23.4%. There are still 19% people in the early education group who have threatened others with weapons, while the traditional group has not.
In a word, they are not good at getting along with people.
Of course, what needs to be explained here is that the object of this study in the United States is the children of poor families, and the life of the poor in the United States is already very difficult. This is why the crime rate is so high when I grow up. Other studies that do not specifically use the poor have reached the same conclusion, although there is no such obvious high data.
Early education is not conducive to children's brain development, and it is easy to develop children's utilitarian heart.
Advanced knowledge of early education will impose content that does not belong to children's development stage on incompetent children, such as our common two-year-old children reciting ancient poems and ancient words. The ability of these children is actually not enough to understand the meaning behind ancient poems. When children can understand the meaning, they are used to "memorizing" instead of remembering by understanding.
Therefore, this early education method is actually not conducive to children's growth and development, especially brain memory.
South Korea once set off a craze to encourage one-year-old babies to learn English, yoga and even philosophy, but later most of these babies developed psychological diseases such as emotional anxiety, attention disorder and unbalanced cognitive development, which caused people to reflect.
In addition, early education will also make children more utilitarian and will deliberately cater to their parents. When faced with something they are interested in, they will first think about what they can do to make their parents happy, instead of thinking from their own perspective.
Before the age of six, children's real task is to play.
Alison Gopnik, a developmental psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, said in her book Gardeners and Carpenters: Before the age of six, children's real task is not to learn to read, write and do math problems, but to play.
Children will learn by themselves while playing. They will learn to help each other, share with each other, compete fairly, unite and be friendly, and learn the boundaries of politeness, respect and social interaction.
David Wilson, an evolutionary biologist, believes that the process of children's growth seems flexible, but in fact it is very strict. Every step of children's development needs the correct input of environmental information.
Children under 9 months do not need additional audio and video multimedia information. Letting children listen to music and watch TV for a long time will lead to their inability to concentrate when they grow up.
/kloc-Children under 0/8 months can only improve their vocabulary by listening to and interacting with real people. Other methods are useless and harmful.
Children under 2 years old are only suitable for touching three-dimensional objects-that is, ordinary objects in the real world, such as toys and people. And two-dimensional things, such as books and pictures, will only hinder the development of their perceptual ability.
People's hearing, vision, various perceptual abilities and brain development are all in order. Giving an undue stimulus in advance is likely to make things that should be developed at this time develop badly.
The task of children under six years old is not to honor their parents with amazing academic achievements, but to grow up healthily. Compulsory early education is harming children.
Bian Xiao News:
It is too painful for children to be asked to study at the age of play. Comparatively speaking, playing at the right age and learning at the right age are the most regular and scientific education!