The Detriments of Formal Schooling on Early Cognitive Development

Education is delivered through an institution that creates a difficult environment to perform well in. The high expectations that some parents and political groups set ads to already existing high pressures for students to meet. Starting formal schooling at the age of five in hopes of achieving greater academic successes increases the pressures placed on children to conform at a younger age. This process is believed to deprive the necessary skills that are attained in kindergarten's and pre-formal structures of study and encourage development with age appropriate experiences through bas…