However, among the children in the second group, one child performed as well as the children in the first group. After follow-up investigation, the professor found that the reason why this child can perform well is because his mother often carries out "early education" at home by playing hide and seek, painting, telling stories and singing nursery rhymes.
It can be seen that "early education" does have an obvious effect on promoting children's intellectual development.
How do successful foreign people "learn early"?
Rousseau's father is a world-famous thinker and writer and a watchmaker. Whenever he works, he will teach Rousseau, who is three years old, to read Plutarch's Biography of Heroes in Ancient Greece and Rome. Under his guidance, Rousseau had read Le sewell's History of the Church and Empire, Vonnel's Lecture on the General History of the World and Moliere's plays before he was seven years old.
Madame Curie observed her daughters when they babbled, and found that the eldest daughter was quiet, simple and dedicated, which are exactly the qualities that scientists should have; The youngest daughter has the characteristics of an artist, jump thinking, full of dreams and changeable emotions. So she gave different family early education according to the natural characteristics of the children she found, and finally won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 1993 "Synthesis of New Radioactive Elements". The youngest daughter became an excellent music educator and biographer.
Margaret Thatcher, a politician who was re-elected as the British Prime Minister for three times and was all-powerful in world politics, was only five years old. Her father Roberts taught her daughter: Always have your own opinions, use your own brain to judge whether things are right or wrong, and never listen to other people's advice. And in daily life, we pay attention to cultivating our daughter's independent personality, that is, "rigorous, accurate, detail-oriented, and distinguish right from wrong."
China people's mentality of "early education"
In Shanghai Book City, a young father was holding a book, Intelligence Test of 1 year-old Baby, which tested children's ability to compare numbers and sing nursery rhymes. He said:
"My child 1 1 month, let him have a look at the IQ book of the baby 1 year old."
In his basket, there are several books of the same type about children's intellectual development.
Usually, most children who have just turned/kloc-0 can talk, but reciting children's songs is definitely not enough, but the father is ambitious that these pictures are very eye-catching books on IQ tests and training, which should attract children's attention. He will give the child a test first, then write down the scores, and then let his son learn language, mathematics, logic, emotion, sports, observation and socialization according to the books, and then do it.
This is a very typical concept of "early education" for parents in China-
It is to equate education with learning and think that the result of learning is the effect of education.
As a result, children start reading within one year old and learning foreign languages within three years old, and more than 85% of children aged 3-6 attend various early education training classes.
Only in leisure time can people think and study.
A friend's child went to primary school and brought back a form from school for his parents to fill out. One of them must fill in the "advantages" of the child. My friend thought for a long time and didn't know what to fill in.
Because the children all say that the teacher's "strength" can't be achieved by others, but the children in the class have learned to play the piano, draw, Chinese, swim, computer, English, sing, dance and play chess in the early education class. ...
Therefore, everyone learns "as much", not the "skills" taught by schools and cram schools, but the "different" characteristics.
What are these "different" characteristics?
It is personality traits, knowledge connotation, work attitude, logical thinking, imagination and creativity. ...
The word "school" means "leisure" in Greek, because the Greeks believe that people only spend time thinking and studying in their leisure time.
Indeed, the cultivation of ability needs to leave "leisure" time for children to chew what they have learned, so that parents can carefully observe their different reactions and changes. It is urgent to take time to wait and let them accumulate and develop slowly.
Running first may not win, but it will only lose children's enthusiasm for learning and blur their "talents".
The way parents choose to cultivate is to gamble on their children's future, so be careful!