Economist recognise that investment in early childhood education = future returns:

• Private returns: those that the individual gets
• Social returns: the private returns plus additional benefits for society
• Global returns: the private and social returns plus additional benefits for the world

  Educationalists also recognise that high quality early childhood education results in gains for individuals, society and the world.

• Research indicates that genes provide the initial plan for the brain’s architecture, but experiences shape it.*

*Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/brain-architecture/)