... According to University of British Columbia psychology professor Adele Diamond, Quebec is way ahead of other provinces in its education of preschool children. "It's not perfect. It could be improved but ... you can see that poor kids in Quebec are doing much better in reading at age 5 then [sic] poor kids in any other province."
Quebec's investment in early childhood development is equivalent to about 0.75 per cent of its gross domestic product. The rest of Canada spends approximately 0.15 per cent of GDP. In total, Canada spends about 0.25 per cent of GDP for early childhood development, less than any other advanced country in the world, far behind the leading country, Denmark, which spends 2 per cent of GDP ...
The more tools a young child is given to become intellectually stimulated and the more he learns how to play, interact with others and develop new learning skills, the better the chances of succeeding in school in later years, studies have shown ...