ACADEMIC FUTURE DEPENDS ON EARLY START
Keywords:
Early start, learning to learn, enthusiastic students, lifelong learningAbstract
Author starts with the assumption that early pre-school learning (early start) and the highquality introduction of student into learning processes provide the academic future of an individual and the community. He follows and analyzes the well-known authors' thesis that explain importance of early start for the successful academic and life career of the comming generations. In addition, his claims are supported by his own research results that showed great significance of parental instruction in determining the early start (β = 0,39, significant at level of 0,001) in comparison to the creation of learning conditions and negative attitudes toward learning. Until recently, there has been a generally accepted thesis in Balkans that children should firstly be satisfied with playing, and later on to start learning. It is a theory based on the assumption that learning is hard, painful and unpleasant. However, if we combine learning and playing, then the early learning of letters and digits is something that children will enjoy in. If the school, at the same time, is capable of continuting the education of children in easy learning, there is a viable optimism that we can motivate children to love learning and to create a nation of enthusiastic students. No matter how small is the nation that succeeds in this, it will be at the top of the most developed nations in the world. This, of course, is applicable to all citizens who live in this kind of environment, attending this kind of schools and preschool institutions, regardless of their skin color, religion or nationality.
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