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Education is an important resource for the progress of a country, so every citizen must and must adhere to the level of education, early childhood education, primary, middle or high education. In the field of education, children from birth need adequate services to meet educational needs, and understand the characteristics of children based on their growth and development is useful to adapt to the learning process of children in old age, in needs and conditions both intellectually and emotionally and socially.
Before you talk more, what is early childhood education? Early Childhood Education (ECD) is the level of pre-primary education aimed at developing the sixth birth by providing training that encourages the growth and development of children's physical and mental development. Readiness to access education, which takes place in a formal, informal and informal form.
Why is early childhood education important?
Based on the study, 80% of adult intelligence abilities develop in children aged 4 years, 8% develop brain tissue quickly in children aged 8 years and very painful when the child is 18 years old. and then although dietary improvements have no effect on cognitive development.
This means that developments in the first four years are also important for developments over the next 14 years. Therefore, today is a critical period for children, where the developments that occur so far have a strong influence on the development of future generations to parents. While this golden comes only once, so if you lose, it means an opportunity.
According to Byrnes, early childhood learning will enable children to prepare for the future closer to school. "At the moment, some kindergartens ask students to register reading and counting, and asylum provides social skills and problem solving, as these skills can be trained at an early age," Byrnes said.
According to Byrnes, early childhood education is important because at that time the child is the most educated. At this age, children should shape their readiness for the future of school and the future. The best investment you can give to children is to prepare their education from an early age.
There are two main reasons why early childhood education is needed:
- The main objective: to develop a quality child, the child will grow and develop according to the level of development to have a good willingness to access basic education and control adult life.
- Purpose of participants: preparation of children for school preparation (academic) at school.
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In short, early childhood education is a form of education that focuses on basic posture of physical growth and development (fine and coarse motor coordination), intelligence (intellectual thinking, creativity, emotional intelligence), emotional (attitude and behavior and religion) and language communication, in line with the uniqueness and stage of development that goes through childhood.
What is the difference between children who receive early childhood education in quality settings with children who do not receive early childhood education?
According to Byrnes (winner of Vitasoy's "Woman of the Year" award in Australia), children in good early childhood education institutions will learn to be independent, confident, confident, curious, adopt ideas, develop ideas, go to school others and ready to learn to adapt quickly and passion for learning.
Meanwhile, children who do not receive early education start receiving something. Children who do not receive early childhood education will appreciate cars that do not produce thermal gasoline. Early-educated children actually do full throttle, the machine will run when it's in a new location. While untrained children at a young age have trouble starting the machine, it will be slow.
