What kind of people should our education ultimately cultivate is a question that every educator must always reflect on. As an integral part of basic education, preschool education bears the heavy responsibility of enlightenment and education. However, in the past exam-oriented education, the shadow of cognitivism hung over education: knowledge infusion and skill training were emphasized, while subjective consciousness and interest in learning were ignored, and the cultivation of self-ability and positive emotional experience was ignored. This trend also affects kindergarten education to a great extent. So what kind of educational content is most valuable to children? What kind of education is most suitable for children, and what educational misunderstandings parents should avoid while undertaking educational responsibilities. This topic focuses on what kind of education is a good preschool education, hoping to enhance parents' and educators' knowledge and understanding of preschool education.

What kind of educational content is most valuable to children?

We can often see from various reports that 3-year-old children can recite 300 Tang poems; 4-year-old children have reached the level of the first grade of primary school; Five-year-old children can recite pi to 1 1,000 decimal places; 6-year-old children have a good understanding of painting copying technology; The 7-year-old piano has reached the amateur level of Grade 8 ... In real life, many parents and teachers think that their children or students can become such "prodigies". More parents and teachers are frustrated that their children or students are not as good as "prodigies" and try their best to train them, so parents and teachers are miserable, and children are even more unbearable.

Let's call the above preschool education "early education". How about this kind of "early education"? Has the harmonious development of children's body and mind been achieved? A large number of activities devoted to discrimination and memory and long-term skill training have enriched children's knowledge and skills, but their interest does not necessarily increase or even decrease. According to the researcher's investigation, more than 80% of the 100 children aged 3-7 have arranged weekends. When asked if they were happy, as many as 90% of the children replied that "no writing", "no painting", "no playing the piano" and "no studying" were the happiest weekends. At best, this kind of education only develops children's narrow intellectual education-focusing on memory, logical reasoning ability and one-sided aesthetic education-focusing only on skill training, which is similar, but it will not be used to express its own voice. Children are physically exhausted and psychologically depressed. How can they develop healthily physically and mentally without harmony? As for learning to be a man, it is only a matter of educating children when they grow up. This kind of education is very dangerous, and it will be too late to understand the truth that "Rome wasn't built in a day".

What kind of early childhood education is the most needed education for children, what kind of early childhood education is the truly high-quality and most valuable early childhood education, and what is the real significance of early childhood development. The new "Outline" clearly points out: "Kindergarten education is the basic stage of school education and lifelong education in China ... it should lay a good foundation for children's lifelong development"; It is emphasized that educational activities should not only meet children's actual needs, but also benefit their long-term development. The new "Outline" attaches great importance to children's own "experience" and "feeling" in the expression of goals, contents, requirements, organization, implementation and evaluation in various fields. Emphasize cooperation, participation, exploration and independent choice; Pay attention to the formation of children's feelings, attitudes, values and good habits; Advocate teachers to "trigger" and "support" the benign interaction between children and the environment, and let children "actively construct" ... "Promote the development of children's emotions, attitudes, abilities, knowledge and skills from different angles; The choice of educational content is close to children's life, close to things and problems that children are interested in, and regards emotion and attitude as the most important aspects of children's development, highlighting the theme spirit of self-confidence. "

In its book Learn to Live, UNESCO puts forward that the four pillars of future education-learning to be a man, learning to do things, learning to learn and learning to get along with others-have penetrated organically. To borrow a sentence from Kōichirō Matsuura, a famous Japanese educator: Our education today is to enable children to learn all their lives and live with dignity and quality; This is to enable them to make full contributions to the environment and have the ability to control their own lives. We say that according to children's psychological characteristics, education around children's needs is the most valuable.