In the private schools, most of the learning activities are individualized.  For instant, every child engages in a learning task, which is particular appeal to him/her as it gears towards his/her readiness.  By doing so, he works at his own rate and repeats a task, as often he or she prefers.  A careful planned series of success will boost his/her inner confidence which assuring his/her capability to learn by himself or herself.  These confidential building can contributes to child healthy emotional development.

With self-confident, he or she is able to face challenges head on – a life skill which many of the adult lacking of.

Public school on another hand provides a core program, which looks which looks fairly decent on paper but each Centre functions on its own, which depend a lot on the principal and teaching staffs.  The focus is on the academic success which is performance-based therefore will inculcate fear of failure in the future.

When the child has a rigid mindset of wanting to be successful, he would face challenges negatively and would be unwillingly to try out new things, as he will select a comfort and familiar path.  Somehow, he will bring this attitude towards his adulthood.

One of the prestigious school, Montessori states that “Montessori classes are organized to encompass a two or three-year age span, which allow younger students to experience the daily stimulation of older role models, who in turn blossom in the responsibilities of leadership.”

Some parent argue that such technique should be practice and nurtured at home whereas at school, children should be focus on the academic learning.

Children who attend the public pre-school benefit from the curriculum, that prepare them for the standard Singapore education system.  Many of the private pre-school attempt to make their lesson fun and interesting but unfortunately, not all primary schools are able to keep in pace with these creative teaching method, hence these student might find attending primary school be daunting and boring.

 In Conclusion, attending costly private pre-school might not always be the best option to provide your child a head start in life.  Also in the standard primary school, the environment is different; therefore children attending a private school might not be able to adapt for example the class size.  In the private school, they are focus on small class size in order to cater more focus attention.  The kid will be in a disadvantage when entering primary school where class size is much bigger; the child will feel emotionally suffocated as there is limited attention being given.