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Comparing Early Education Then And Now
De’Niqua Campbell
September 13, 2011
Compare Early Education Then & Now.

As I think back on the younger years of my life, I can remember my early education years as being fun, and slow pace. From what I can recall the learning techniques were a lot different than the learning techniques today. Though it hasn’t been that long ago, there are many things that have changed over the years. I can remember doing the basics, covering writing my name, coloring, cutting, pasting, tracing, and reading. Now they’re teaching math in kindergarten along with computers, when I was in elementary we started those things in second and third grade. The methods of learning have advanced tremendously. I personally feel that being that things are so advanced now, that can either hurt or help the kids, why? Because the downfall of advancing is some kids are not mentally able to cope as fast as others so they fall behind, on
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Being that I was born the end of December I had the chance of staying an extra year in Head Start because I wasn’t old enough to start school. So with me being in Head Start an extra year it helped me out a lot because once I started kindergarten I was reading on a first grade level, not only was I reading on a first grade level I already knew how to write my name correctly, count to one hundred, recognize shapes and know my colors. One thing that I liked about the technique of teaching back when I was in school was how hands on we were, now that technology is a huge role in society now it’s hardly any hands on activity’s involved in the schools. The influences I see from the historians are numerous amounts of their methods are still being used in the schools. For instance; John Amos Comenius, he was a true believer of language

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