Why early childhood education is key to success in life

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”, according to Nelson Mandela. Early education, in particular, shapes the development and the future of a child. Research in the field of education has shown that a child’s earliest years of development are the most critical. At age three, children’s brain hits peak capacity to retain new information. However, not all the education systems in the world take notice of this and nourish children’s receptivity at a young age.

Nowadays, we know that taking in new sights, sounds and information is paramount in the formation of active neural pathways.


85% of who you are - your intellect, your personality, your social skills - is developed by age 5.
As childhood, and especially early childhood, comes with learning at a rapid rate, these are the years when a child should be most engaged in learning. Childrens need our attention and require the best teachers, and teaching methods, they can have!


Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of Early Education:

- more likely to graduate from high school
- a reduction in behaviour problems throughout the school career
- longer attention spans and better retention of information
- improvement in the social skills of children
- better grades
- your child will not have issues with math or English later on
- pre-school has proven beneficial from youth to adulthood
- your child is more likely to end up in college
- various and very engaging activities
- according to a study, exposure to as little as one or two years of preschool and intensive early childhood experiences accounted for an increase of motivation, intellectual skills and social adjustments
- the estimated cost per child for 18 months of nursery school is 9000 $.... But the benefits come to 90.000 $ per child, in terms of increased earnings in later life, less criminal behaviour and reduced mental health costs
- according to the same study, 80% of the preschool group finished high school, compared to 75% of the other group which did not attend nursery
- Average annual income for the preschool group was about 11.600 $ compared to 10.800 $ for the others

Additional research shows that:

• » 2-year olds in nurseries demonstrated higher cognitive skills than children in exclusive care of parents
• » They also had higher motor skills, compared to childrens in home-based care and children in care of a babysitter
• » 4-year olds in center-based care were more inclined to develop early reading, expressive vocabulary, math skills and color knowledge, than those cared for exclusively by their parents or babysitters

There you go. Hope you enjoyed this briefing on the importance of early education in life. For the best daycare, nursery, primary school and after school programs in Bucharest, visit www.inspe.ro and learn more about our aspirations to help your child succeed.