There are five possible reasons for the recent upsurge of interest in early years education.
The first is the idea that investment in the first years of a child's life is likely to deliver results. The early years are emotionally, physically, socially and intellectually important. The Jesuits, on this as so much else, were right. Children make relatively greater progress in their first months and years than they do at any other point. So the Government could be on to a winner. Invest early and millions of individuals may be helped to make a go of their lives. Our society will be stronger and the drain on the public purse much less.
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