'A new national curriculum for all under-5s will cause untold damage to the development of young children, a powerful lobby of academics says today.
The highly prescriptive regime for pre-school children, which is due to become law next year, has been introduced by stealth, they say. It will induce needless anxiety and dent children’s enthusiasm for learning, according to the group of experts in childhood development.'
That's the idea. It's about locking toddlers into the left brain as early as possible, so that dominates them for life at the expense of the creative 'out there' right brain that is developed through play and imagination.
