The earliest preschool education institution in the world was founded by Owen in England in 1802. 1800, Owen founded a new Nanak cotton textile mill in Scotland. As a philanthropist, he cares about the work and conditions of workers, especially the education of their children. He forbids/kloc-children under 0/0 to work in the factory.

In order to reduce the burden on workers' families, he first established a kindergarten for children under five years old, which was then called a nursery. Kindergarten aims to cultivate children's good habits and discipline.

Development history: Since 1980s, there has been an obvious change in the goal of preschool education in developed countries, that is, from "intellectual education center" to focusing on the overall development direction. In the 1960s, under the pressure of the Cold War and the "knowledge explosion", the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union and other countries carried out curriculum reform in primary and secondary schools on the principle of high, new and difficult, and the teaching content was gradually dispersed.

In particular, American psychologist Bloom attaches great importance to children's early intellectual development, and strengthening early intellectual development has become one of the important contents of educational reform in the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan and Germany. In this case, people tend to misunderstand early education as early intellectual development, which leads to "intellectual education center" and ignores the social and emotional development of preschool children.