The Importance of Early Childhood Education

The earliest education in a person's life comes from the family, from the mother's early education of the child.

In order to study the influence of mothers on a person's life, a famous American psychologist selected 50 successful people in the United States, all of whom had attained outstanding achievements in their respective professions, and at the same time, he also selected 50 people with a criminal record, and wrote to each of them to ask them to talk about the influence of their mothers on them. Two letters made the greatest impression on him.

One from a prominent White House figure, one from a prisoner serving time in jail.

They all talk about the same thing: their mothers giving them apples when they were little.

An inmate from the prison wrote this in a letter:

When I was little, one day my mom brought me some apples, red and green, different sizes, and I saw one in the middle that was red and big, and I liked it very much and wanted it very much. My mom put the apples on the table and asked my brother and me: Which one do you want? I was about to say that I wanted the biggest and reddest one, but then my brother beat me to it and said what I wanted to say. When my mother heard this, she glared at him and scolded him, saying, "My child should learn how to give good things to others, and not to think of himself all the time. So, in a moment of inspiration, I changed my mind and said, "Mom, I want the smallest one, and I'll save the biggest one for my brother." Mom was so happy that she kissed me on the face and rewarded me with the big, red apple. I got what I wanted, and from then on I learned to lie. After that, I learned to fight, steal, rob, and do whatever I could to get what I wanted until now, when I am sent to jail.

Here is what the famous maharaja from the White House wrote:

When I was young, one day my mom brought a few apples, red and green, each of different sizes. My brother and I are fighting for the big one, mom put the biggest and reddest apple in her hand, and said to us: "This apple is the biggest and reddest and the most delicious, who all want to get it. Good, now let's make a competition, I divided the front lawn into three pieces, you three a piece, responsible for mowing good, who do the fastest and best, who has the right to get it."

The three of us competed and I won the biggest apple. I'm very grateful to my mother for teaching me the simplest and most important thing: to be the best, you have to be the best, and that's what she always taught us, and that's what she did. In our family, you have to compete to win all the good things you want, it's fair, what you want, how much you want, you have to work hard and pay for it.

The hand that pushes the cradle is the hand that pushes the world. Mothers are the first teachers of their children, you can teach them to tell their first lie, or you can teach them to be honest and always strive to be the first.