Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/friendship-love-what-early-childhood-education-is-all-about/5010642/
Love is the supreme form of human communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum - with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.
Why is love so important?
To appreciate the significance of love, we only need to look at what happens when love is withheld.
As late as the second decade of the 20th century, the death rate for infants under one year in various foundling institutions throughout the United States was nearly 100%, and no one had the least idea why. The mystery was solved, almost accidentally, by Dr. Fritz Talbot of Boston when he was visiting the Children's Clinic in Dusseldorf, Germany. All the wards shown to Dr. Talbot were very neat and tidy, but what piqued his curiosity was the sight of a fat old woman carrying a baby on her hip. "Oh, that is Old Anna," Dr. Talbot was told. "When we have done everything medically we can for a baby, and it is still not doing ...