ABSTRACT
There is an increasing amount of national and international evidence to show that quality early childhood education has a positive long-term effect upon children’s later development. Governments, worldwide, have at last begun to recognise that early childhood education matters. However, successful quality early education is more than providing children with a few facts or cognitive skills, it is about empowering children and providing them with the opportunity to ‘learn how to learn’. It is also about providing children with the resources to deal with challenges and failure and to help them understand that achievement is as much about persistence and motivation as it is about intelligence.
