School for 3 and 4 yr olds? What are they thinking?

“People used to believe little babies were all just kind of blobs," according to Ms. Campbell –a leading advocate for schooling 3 and 4 yr olds. "Now there's so much more awareness that learning starts at the very beginning." Where in the world did Ms. Campbell get the “blob” idea? Has she ever been a mother? My mother, my grandmother, and their mothers before them knew very well that babies begin learning from birth, and even before, and are literally sponges soaking up knowledge of every kind imaginable.

The Israeli Kibbutzim reared by the community instead of their mothers, demonstrate damaging consequences to the child’s sense of family, of safety, and of belonging. No one else can teach with the ingenuity, love, and patience of a devoted mother. Not only would such schools be an utter waste of taxpayers’ money in budget crunching times; they would do serious harm to our children in deprivation of mother’s influence in early learning. It’s a Brave New World concept, leading towards the kind of amoral society portrayed in Huxley’s book of that name.

“Richer than me you could never be. I had a mother who read to me.”