How did the history of preschool education thoughts develop?

The gestation and germination of preschool education thought. (ancient ~1early 9th century)

Plato systematically expounded the education of preschool children for the first time, advocated public education for children, and discussed the choice of games and story materials for preschool children. Aristotle and quintilian also discussed children's education. In particular, Aristotle was the first to put forward the argument that "education should follow nature" in the history of human education, which pointed out the correct direction for human research and education of children.

Comenius, a Czech educator, brought preschool education into his democratic monorail school system for the first time, wrote the first preschool education monograph "Parenting School" in history and the world's first illustrated children's book "World Map", and built a complete family preschool education system.

Locke, a British educator, put forward concrete suggestions on children's physical education, aesthetic education, moral education and intellectual education in his Random Talk on Education.

In Emile, Rousseau emphasized that education should return to nature and advocated educating children according to their natural development. He believes that children learn not through language and writing, but through experience and the use of immature organs. His educational thought has become a watershed between traditional education and modern education, which has had an extremely important impact on the development of preschool education thought in later generations. At this point, education has changed from closed to open, emphasizing that education should be suitable for children, not for children to adapt to education.

Pestalozzi, a Swiss educator, inherited children's natural thoughts in previous education and proved that all education should be based on sensory education. The best way for children to learn is to operate, and the mother is the best teacher for children. He wrote Lienhard and Goddard, Mother's Reading, etc. He was the first person to put forward the idea of teaching psychology in the history of education.