Two-Year-Olds Should be Playing, Not in School
Two-year-olds should be playing, not in school – In order to make young children “school ready”, the English government is now encouraging parents to place their children in school nurseries shortly after their second birthday . But there is evidence to suggest that this policy might be poorly aligned to the developmental needs of such young children and that it contravenes their underlying human nature.
In the broader history of humanity, state-funded schooling is a very recent public strategy and is only about two centuries old in England. It arose from the industrial revolution as a process to instill the population with basic literacy and numeracy skills. Until even more recently, there was never any suggestion that a school environment was the right place in which to nurture children under five years of age.
According to a 2009 report for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s program for international student assessments China, Korea and Finland were the best performing nations in terms of literacy. And despite the vast cultural differences between these countries, they had one common feature – a school entry age of 7.
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