Herbert Spencer, the author of this book, is a famous educator, philosopher and sociologist in England. Spencer has won the honorary titles of academician and doctor of many famous universities in 11 countries, such as Britain, France and the United States. He is the advocator of modern western scientific education thought. He was also nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.

He is called "the second Newton in human history" by the scientific and educational circles. Spencer's happy education book was written at the end of the 19th century. As soon as it was published, it triggered a revolution in American education. It led to a comprehensive reform in the curriculum and educational methods of American universities, middle schools and primary schools, thus laying the foundation for the talent advantage of the United States in the past 100 years.

1、 Parents are children's first and most important teachers

When every little angel comes to the world, parents have to bear the responsibility of raising. Raising children is like raising flowers. Parents not only need to carefully water, fertilize and let them enjoy the sunshine, but also need to trim the branches and leaves in time and get rid of insects on a regular basis in order to thrive. Therefore, in the process of children's growth, parents should not only bear the responsibility of raising, but also the obligation of teaching.

In the process of educating children, parents not only need to give their children sufficient love, but also need to set an example to teach their children by words and deeds. At the same time, they also need to pass happiness to their children, and can enter their children's inner world in the game.

2、 How to guide children to be interested in learning and let them learn in a happy state?

Learning is very important for one's life. Through learning, we can master knowledge and skills. However, in the traditional education, most of them regard learning as boring, in such a state, there will be no good harvest. Spencer through the nephew's education, found that children in a happy state of learning, the effect is the best.

And how to let children learn in a happy state, the most important is to guide children to have a strong interest in learning, because the role of interest is to bring children happiness. Herbert Spencer believes that interest is a child's active choice of things. Parents need to induce their children to strengthen and promote their children's initiative in order to make interest permanent and clear.

So how can we induce children to be interested in learning?

Spencer put forward two methods. One is to participate in children's interests and help them acquire knowledge. Spencer's nephew was particularly interested in ants when he was a child. In order to induce his nephew to acquire knowledge and methods from them, Spencer formulated an "ant research plan", asking his nephew to find information about ants, understand their living habits and survival characteristics, etc. This "research plan" makes my nephew more interested. He thinks that studying ants has become a very meaningful thing since it was just fun. It is because of Spencer's step-by-step induction that his nephew learned the method of seeking knowledge unconsciously.

The second method is to make happy family teaching aids by teaching in fun. Spencer's suggestion is that parents can make some fun of home teaching aids, so that children can play while learning. For example, grammar wind chime, nine palace number game, and interesting map paper.

3、 How to cultivate the habit of lifelong benefit for children?

When parents cultivate their children's good habits, they should pay attention to three key points.

The first key point is to repeat the habit. Parents in the cultivation of children's habits, need to pay enough patience and time, guide children to repeat in accordance with the established way to do, step by step to develop good habits.

The second is to induce and stimulate the habit. Everyone has different habits. The reason for this phenomenon is that the habits comply with the inner preferences, interests and needs. Therefore, parents need to gradually stimulate the formation of habits through induction according to their children's interests.

The third key to cultivate children's good habits is to be interested. When parents cultivate their children's good habits, they should find their children's needs, capture their children's interests, guide them according to the situation and cultivate their children's good habits.

Herbert Spencer believes that it is necessary to train children to learn to use, choose independently, be good at accumulation and develop good habits of concentration, so as to benefit children for life.