The non-intellectual factors that are covered under the early childhood education are good character, talent, emotions, motivation and interest. Early children education is not only for child intellectual development, it is also for the development of a child character, just as the saying goes, good character leads to success in life. Character training has become one of the non-intelligence factors in early education that every child needs. The child must cultivate a good character from the beginning.
Good character in early children education is a broad term that comprises of been honest, tolerate, self-confidence, kind, focused, living happily, hard-working and learn to be independence. Any child that grows with these attitudes is destined for success in life and will definitely become a hero among his generation. Let me talk little about this good character terms:
1. Developing self-confidence; one of the non-intelligence factors for achieving lasting success in life is self-confidence. It helps to achieve set goals. Self-confidence can be formed in a child. For instance, when a child accomplishes something great, such a child should be praised by an adult either by parent or teacher. Such positive reaction from an adult to a child, always encouraging the child to make progress and he/she will grow towards developing self-confidence, likewise when a child does wrong, he should be calmly criticized.
2. Honesty; There is a common saying that honesty is the best policy, the wisdom behind this saying is not immediately evident. What is immediately evident to the superficial observer or a short sighted person is that honesty does not pay, that is, dishonesty that pays. For instance an honest man, who becomes a head of state, or a governor, can remain relatively poor or never becomes rich, because he/she refuses to avail himself of several opportunities of enriching himself through dishonest means such as embezzlement of public funds. But a dishonest man in the same position avails himself of all these opportunities and by the time he leaves office, he becomes a wealthy man. In Ancient Greece, a man by name Thrasymachus argued precisely along this line and maintained that honesty was not worth practicing because the honest man is always the loser while the dishonest man always triumphs, but Socrates, the great philosopher had a hard time trying to convince Thrasymachus that he was mistaken.
3. Discipline; this is when a person is able to control his passions, emotions, desires and appetites. As we know, man is a rational animal, this means that human nature includes both rationality and animalistic. A person who is self-disciplined is a one whose reason successfully keeps his animal aspect in check. We should know that the desire for food, for pleasure, money or comfort is not bad in themselves, but they are insatiable and tend to reduce man to the animal level when they are not checked by reason. Greediness, selfishness, impatience are the results of the manifestations of indiscipline. We find indiscipline everywhere in our society and is one of the major obstacles to the development of any country. One of the qualities that are essential for good and effective leadership is discipline.
4. Tolerance; this is the mark of respect for the freedom and dignity of other people. In a society where there is freedom of belief, freedom of religion, the freedom to hold any opinion and to belong to any association of one’s choice, there is need to tolerate for peace to reign. Also tolerance means allowing other people to hold their own views; beliefs and opinions (provided of course that such beliefs, views or opinion are not harmful to the society). Tolerance does not mean condoning evil, if somebody is doing what is evil and we allow him to continue without warning him or advising him to stop it, we are not being tolerant.
1. Developing self-confidence; one of the non-intelligence factors for achieving lasting success in life is self-confidence. It helps to achieve set goals. Self-confidence can be formed in a child. For instance, when a child accomplishes something great, such a child should be praised by an adult either by parent or teacher. Such positive reaction from an adult to a child, always encouraging the child to make progress and he/she will grow towards developing self-confidence, likewise when a child does wrong, he should be calmly criticized.
2. Honesty; There is a common saying that honesty is the best policy, the wisdom behind this saying is not immediately evident. What is immediately evident to the superficial observer or a short sighted person is that honesty does not pay, that is, dishonesty that pays. For instance an honest man, who becomes a head of state, or a governor, can remain relatively poor or never becomes rich, because he/she refuses to avail himself of several opportunities of enriching himself through dishonest means such as embezzlement of public funds. But a dishonest man in the same position avails himself of all these opportunities and by the time he leaves office, he becomes a wealthy man. In Ancient Greece, a man by name Thrasymachus argued precisely along this line and maintained that honesty was not worth practicing because the honest man is always the loser while the dishonest man always triumphs, but Socrates, the great philosopher had a hard time trying to convince Thrasymachus that he was mistaken.
3. Discipline; this is when a person is able to control his passions, emotions, desires and appetites. As we know, man is a rational animal, this means that human nature includes both rationality and animalistic. A person who is self-disciplined is a one whose reason successfully keeps his animal aspect in check. We should know that the desire for food, for pleasure, money or comfort is not bad in themselves, but they are insatiable and tend to reduce man to the animal level when they are not checked by reason. Greediness, selfishness, impatience are the results of the manifestations of indiscipline. We find indiscipline everywhere in our society and is one of the major obstacles to the development of any country. One of the qualities that are essential for good and effective leadership is discipline.
4. Tolerance; this is the mark of respect for the freedom and dignity of other people. In a society where there is freedom of belief, freedom of religion, the freedom to hold any opinion and to belong to any association of one’s choice, there is need to tolerate for peace to reign. Also tolerance means allowing other people to hold their own views; beliefs and opinions (provided of course that such beliefs, views or opinion are not harmful to the society). Tolerance does not mean condoning evil, if somebody is doing what is evil and we allow him to continue without warning him or advising him to stop it, we are not being tolerant.
Intolerance breeds hatred, conflict and destruction of the society. But it is a boomerang which hits back at the person from whom it goes out, so that the intolerant man also suffers the consequence of his intolerance. Intolerance is a mark of incivility, if we want peace, if we think we are civilized, we should then be broad-minded and be prepared to be tolerant. Peace and intolerance do not go together. Where there is intolerance, there can be no peace.
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