Why educate children from an early age?
Early education is a new educational discipline with social progress and scientific development. Although its development history in China is not long, its development speed is very fast. If our family or kindergarten paid attention to the care and care of children 20 years ago, the focus of attention today has shifted to the education of children.
We are glad to see that every family knows to educate their children at home after they are born. When a family has their own children, how to get them a good early education has become a very concerned issue for every family. When the children are older, they will be sent to kindergarten for kindergarten education. Even many families have prenatal education before their children are born. This shows that our society has formed a good atmosphere of early education, and our family has a high awareness of early education.
The purpose of cultivation is to obtain. With regard to early education, we must first clarify a question: Why do we need early family education, kindergarten education and even prenatal education for our children? Can we wait until the children are older, such as after primary school? The first thing we need to know is: human brain potential and its development.
As we all know, we modern people evolved from apes 2 million years ago. After such a long period of inheritance, evolution and evolution, the most precious wealth of modern people is that modern people have a particularly complex and intelligent brain, which has great potential.
So, how big is the potential of the human brain? After a lot of research and experiments by Chinese and foreign scientists, there is a general consensus that the brain potential of ordinary people in our society is only 3%- 10%, which means that at least 90% of adults with the best potential are buried without development and utilization. Even the smartest people in the world, such as great scientists like Newton and Einstein, have only exploited 30% of the brain's potential. 70% of the potential has not been developed and utilized.
How big is the potential of human brain? Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have done a lot of research and tests on people's memory potential, and finally come to the conclusion that if any healthy ordinary person's memory potential is well and fully developed, then this person can remember 50 times of the 20 million books in the Library of Congress, which means that the amount of information that any ordinary person's brain can remember is equivalent to that of 50 large libraries. In real life, how many things do we ordinary people remember from birth to school and even our whole lives? Compared with the information collected by 50 large libraries, what we remember is insignificant, and we can hardly remember much, which fully shows that our memory potential is far from being developed and utilized.
The crux of the problem is: since the human brain has such great potential, why do we develop and utilize it so little? This is because people's brain potential is not like underground mineral deposits, and they can be developed whenever they want. Brain science research proves that the development of human brain potential is the easiest, and the best period should be 0-8 years old. Bloom, an American psychologist, has come to the conclusion through a lot of research that if a person's potential development at the age of 0- 17 is 100%, then his potential has been developed by 50% before the age of 4, that is to say, it takes only about 4 years from the birth of a child to his age of 4, and half of his brain potential has never been developed. The remaining 20% potential is developed from the age of 8- 17. The potential development at this stage not only has a long time span, but also has a slow development speed and small development opportunities.
Some scientists use a triangle figure to describe the image of brain potential development: the bottom of a triangle is like when a person is 0 years old, and its area is the widest in the triangle figure, so when a person is 0 years old, potential development is the easiest. With the growth of age, the region will become narrower and narrower, the possibility of potential development will be smaller and the development will be more difficult. By the age of 8, it accounts for 80% of the whole triangle. This chart also tells us. Although the potential area under the age of 8 is very large, if the child reaches the age of 8, this potential can no longer be developed. Let's look at the age of 8- 17. In these 89 years, the potential development area is only the narrow area at the upper part of the triangle. Therefore, after the child is 8 years old, the development and development of potential will become very slow and difficult. At this time, even if the potential development is strengthened outside, the effect is very small.
Then, why do you want to carry out early education, preschool education and even prenatal education for your children? Very clear. The real purpose of early education is to seize the age of 0-8, when the brain potential is the easiest to develop, and to make good use of various effective educational channels and learning methods to develop the brain potential of children. This is the educational goal we should achieve in early childhood education.
In fact, in the process of educating children, many families have a common misunderstanding of early education. Many parents pay special attention to what my children have learned and what they have learned. Therefore, in order to let their children learn or learn more things, unscientific educational methods are often adopted, and some even force children to learn. A common phenomenon in reality is that when parents ask about their children in kindergartens, they often focus on what they have learned during this period. How's it going? Will it? However, children's learning activities, learning conditions and the role of learning activities in potential development are rarely discussed. Therefore, in order to cater to and please parents, some kindergartens take some methods that violate the law of children's development and force children to learn some knowledge content or expertise.
What makes us highly vigilant is: what did children learn in the early stage of education, when their brain potential was the easiest to develop? What have you learned? How did you learn this knowledge? It has nothing to do with it. What is important is: what is the degree of stimulation and potential development to the brain in the process of educating and learning something? If scientific and effective educational methods and methods are used in early childhood, even if the child's potential is developed by a few percent, the child will be very smart. In the modern society with vast knowledge and information, what role will the knowledge learned in early childhood play in the future development? Therefore, only early good potential development is the guarantee and motivation for children's lifelong learning and development.
Here, I am not opposed to children learning knowledge and some specialties at an early age. On the contrary, good potential development must be achieved through children's learning and specialty development. The key question is whether children's early learning and specialty development follow the scientific laws of children's growth and development.
Everyone should understand that children learn from primary school music, painting, calligraphy and so on. It is not to let them become musicians, painters and calligraphers when they grow up, but to let them gain potential and quality from an early age through education and training in these aspects, so as to enrich and enrich their lives. Therefore, we should grasp the principle of early education: what children learn in the early stage is not the purpose of education, and developing their potential through learning is the foundation of early education. I hope that through scientific early education, we can achieve a child with high IQ and high quality, rather than a child scarred for learning knowledge and skills from an early age!