Guo Jianguo said that early education in China is very different from that in foreign countries. Many advanced scientific ideas in western countries are worth learning from, but they must be localized. For example, German parents believe that it is very important to cultivate children's initial abstract thinking ability, which will lay a good foundation for future education. Therefore, digital games, chess, walking maze, building blocks and playing Rubik's cube are the main ways for German parents to cultivate their children's abstract thinking ability. In Germany, it is often seen that on the beach, children, inspired by their parents, draw their remembered homes with wooden sticks. In Canada, older babies can be sent to "game schools", where there are activities such as art, labor and music, but there is no writing and counting homework. Canadian early education experts believe that early childhood is a critical period for the balanced development of sports ability and an important period for cultivating creativity. If you read, write and count too early, it will consume your child's physical and mental strength, which will slow down his motor development. Korean early education experts advocate that children should wait until they want to learn. They should observe what children do first. When they find that children are curious about something, they can gently push them behind them and let them get in touch with all-encompassing nature.
The opinions of foreign early education experts have their own reasons, and others have a lot of practical basis. Guo Jianguo also believes that early enlightenment should refer to these practices. He said that many parents now hear that 3 years old is a "critical period" for their children's language development, so they hope to offer language classes in kindergartens. In fact, children before the age of 6 are already in various sensitive periods, and there is no particularly obvious "critical period". It's just that in the process of a person's growth, we should pay attention to what to do first and then what to do. In the process of children's growth, if parents can provide a lot of information to their children's vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch earlier, they can complete the construction of the brain as soon as possible. For infants aged 1 ~ 3 years, parents should let their children learn basic life skills: all self-care abilities such as walking, running, jumping, hugging, wearing, eating and speaking.
Years of research on early education have enabled Guo Jianguo to accumulate rich practical experience and discover many misunderstandings in traditional education. At present, children aged 1 ~ 3 face the most growth problems. At this stage, their growth speed is fast, their brains develop rapidly, their desire to explore is strong, their rebellious mentality is heavy, and they are prone to danger. Meanwhile, there are few qualified educators. For the healthy growth of babies in this age group, Guo Jianguo coordinated the Infant Work Department of China Care for the Next Generation Education Development Center and the Youyou Baby Channel of Guang Bei Media, and established Youyou Baby Training School, focusing on training preschool teachers aged 1 ~ 3, and spreading his valuable practical experience to more people.
"In recent years, early education is a cutting-edge profession after the nursery teacher. Judging from their career prospects, it is definitely a sunrise industry, with great demand for practitioners and higher cultural quality. But it is still necessary to change the whole social environment and create a good social atmosphere. If more people realize how important early life is to people, I believe that early teachers will be more sought after. "