Children have an intrinsic motivation to act and to organize their actions.
A variety of educational opportunities is more intellectually productive than a specified set of lessons offered in sequential order to all children. Behaviors that reveal autonomy, openness, problem solving ability and personal integrity are criticallly needed in a modern, technological, democratic society. The ECHL program is designed to facilitate the total development of young children, The curriculum is designed to develop intellectual and personal competence rather thatn to train children in performing a limited set of academic skills. 4. functional use of language 5.