In a broad sense, it refers to education from birth to preschool, and in a narrow sense, it mainly refers to early learning in the above stages. Some countries began to learn reading, writing and calculation ahead of time, and started discussions and experiments in formal education ahead of time. But others think that early education should focus on developing intelligence. Others believe that early education should be extended to prenatal education before the mother is born. Family education has a great influence on early education. Among them, the theory of "three-dimensional balanced development of physical quality, intelligence and psychological ability" is the most scientific. Based on 50 thousand children's growth benchmark data, nine children's growth goals are extracted: security, willpower, sense of purpose, attention, memory, thinking ability, balance, strength and speed.

Early education is the beginning of lifelong education for all. At present, everyone has a wrong understanding of early education. Early education thinks that preschool education is early education, that is, the education of children aged 0-6 and the education of children aged 4-6.

Up to now, except for some municipalities directly under the central government and developed areas, all of them are commercial early education institutions. According to the statistics of Dijet 20 1 1 in the first half of the year, there are12,450 early education institutions in Chinese mainland, of which foreign investment accounts for 17.8%. At present, the most active early education markets in China are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The data shows that in the first half of 20 1 1, the number of early education centers in these four cities increased by 33.6%, reaching 5 1 12. The number of new English early education centers reached 48.6%, the number of enlightenment centers increased by 23.5%, the number of thinking centers increased by 2 1.8%, and other sports, puzzles and music categories all increased to varying degrees.