Great idea, we should use them as them as a pinata...

October 31, ABC morning breakfast, repeated on ABC news mornings: a Victorian university released new report recommending aged 3 years children do 600 hours of preschool, university report was lead by Dr Stacey Fox, speaking on mentioned programs. Words like “really great relationships with their teachers” is a scary prospect.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-31/call-for-preschool-age-to-be-lowered/7978784

The Drum ended with 3 year olds attending school as may have been suggested by Dr Stacey Fox. The Age economist editor Peter Martin says, “No... its not a good idea to make it compulsory. Look I've had 4 children John and I'm not having any more”... “another one of my children's school, even when we started at 5, was far too early and really sad, I think, she would have been much more mature to handle it later”... “NAPLAN teaching to a test, NAPLAN is an appalling thing, I say it depends on the child, I'm sorry”.
Two females and one male added their positive comments. The entire conversation took 2 minutes and 45 seconds.

I suggest there is as much empirical evidence in the above mentioned study as there is empirical evidence on humans causing significant global warming compared to natural solar system elements... now changed to climate change.
I ran my own study, asking one elderly retired high school principle. He expressed, children need to experience a period of images and shapes, moving shapes around.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-31/the-drum-monday-october-31/7981744

Three year old children are adventurous and curios. Placing many moving around children whom are wearing colourful clothing in a single room for many hours, seems an ideal learning environment. My problem with this scenario is that attached to the ABC television announcement scenes are children grabbing blocks and stacking blocks on top of each other, looks ideal.

My concerning issue is that preschool teachers will soon find as children get teachers involved in individual play “what do I do”, and children's arguments. Teachers will find organising children much easier if teachers focus children's attention in them as teachers, reading to aged 3 years children. Children won't be able to see the words being read, adding zero learning to the listening experience.

Too many hours of focused attention, children become weary. As children soon lose interest in listening to teachers and drift off, behaviours of ignoring no point to known irrelevant information becomes an instinctive automatic behaviour.

Adults should not force young children to do anything children do not want to do. Children's emotional self-programming will often not want to do selective behaviours when their brain feels fear of not knowing what to do and feeling fear on not easily understanding. Allowing children to experience playing with blocks has learning limits, soon children will want to do something else, which means 2 years of pre-schooling leads teachers to read to children. Listening to teachers read at teacher fast speaking pace sentence after sentence can do more harm than good. Children keen to try to listen to teachers, once children feel built up awareness of mental stress, children will remember how they felt in future following teachers reading sessions. Soon teachers fairytale story reading will seem boring, further killing children's natural curiosity.

Mothers and grand parents one on one with children can spend the time helping individual children to understand. Preschool teachers controlling many children will begin to control what teachers see as chaos, attempting to guide all the children on one prescribed simple knowledge path. Individual children who can't keep up, are ignored. 600 hours a year is about 12 hours a week, 3 days a week is 4 consecutive hours a day of probable cognitive overloading which children have little choice in whether to participate. Peer-pressure, embarrassing moments, children trying to out smart other children narcissism. Preschool hurrying up learning can be the beginning of long term psychological problems.

When emotions become realised, emotional responses will magnify. 20 years later men will be bashing their wives. Men and women will be ignoring everything that isn't simple to understand.

Me, not being any qualified expert, led by my version of common sense, aged 3 years children are all about images. Adult sentences must be limited to whatever see-able image is being under discussion. Sentences need to be short with significant “silent pause” for thought between sentences. Each sentence description will be related to movement, colour and name of whatever image is being seen. In time, describing performance complexity adds to images.

Teachers old European fairytale stories have absolutely no usable images in which young children should associate increasing knowledge.

Dr Stacey Fox may say long term academic performance may improve, Obama's “no child left behind” has American educated young adults looking increasingly: stupid; drug addicted; violent; Donald Trump & Stephen Corbert intelligence howling.

Now the industrial age is over, employment is increasingly more about services. Services are looking more like food preparation and vehicle delivery services. As intelligent levels are no longer required, zombie food preparers and delivers are whom can read addresses and count down street numbers. For hundreds of years, workers have and still are being held in childhood traumatise to think intelligence by too early schooling.

Like the 1994 movie “Dumb & Dumber”, actors are child like distracted intelligence who find thought more to do with the next laugh.

Being able to spell all (dated June 10, 2009): 1,025,106.8 English words and perform advanced maths in a computer spell checking technology age, what a waste of time. Because humans fail to achieve such learning, add more years onto learning tasks, beginning at an earlier age. The stupidity is most every citizen buys into the Fox study statistical argument.
Pythagorean numerology chart below... F-O-X is 666.
http://www.crystalinks.com/numerologypyth.html
666 the devil's number.

Parents make a mistake to believe because being smart means gaining higher scores than some average rate of statistics. Their are different types of intelligence: emotional; rationally; book read.
The point that higher book read test scores than other fellow students can be obtained, indicates other intelligence talents are being ignored.

Once young adults leave education providers, most information will not be used in employment other than spelling and very little maths. If employees are asked to write out reports, the language required to formulate reports will be entirely different to that of school story book reading.

Spending too much time on one particular intelligence studying allows ignored intelligence least opportunities to obtained a balanced intelligence. Without significant rational intelligence, how can readers determine what they may be reading. As many people tend to read Harry Potter type fiction, I assume many readers favour pursuing child-like emotional intelligence. Reactors of emotional intelligence, Neanderthals, can't restrain themselves from following their emotional reactions, resulting in: spouse abuse; drug addictions; limited to manual labour; believing what authority tells unable to think people.

I also suggest much of the Internet relevant to read reading material has too much preamble rambling. Often reading material is too long to care to read and/or relevant googled reading material is too short, leaving gaps in what was googled. Too many separate posts with too little asked for information. Many readings lean towards some promotional rather than informative content. I suggest people are paid by establishment to formulate annoying babble.

In a world of information technology, why is society often being suggested that society is getting dumber? My answer are: too much irrelevant distractions; has always been too early to attend school; too many years spent in school's limited curriculum.

I personally only read technical books when I need to. I have learnt most things from trial and error, thinking out what I experienced. Books are too thick, saying too little, often spreading real yet vaguely described information to keep readers interest, over too many pages. I never read news print badly formulated pointlessness.

An elderly late 1970s retired news paper (who set led type) print editor told me reporters were paid by the word. Long readings would be drafted, only to have another final editor remove many of the cast led type sentences, allowing stories to fit in prescribed columns. Readings become so broken up, the reporters original meaning was entirely changed and/or vastly distorted.

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Morning of November 1, I turned to “ABC for Kids” ABC2 “Sesame Street”, to watch many colourful puppets talking too fast on a short segment called “calm down and think”, for many slow minded to comprehend children to easily understand. Puppet heads constantly nodding while puppets were talking. Elmo had to answer “3” questions in 60 seconds to win a bicycle horn. Elmo's character voice is difficult to understand. Sentences were about “calm down” sounds a great idea for listening parents, yet listening at home children must have found what was see different than what was being asked by Sesame Street adults. I suggest children's program directors used fast speed speaking repeated several times, that maybe listening children might eventually understand what's going on. After a while, once child listeners assume what's being said, listeners can stop listening so intently.
Are listeners being programmed to listen to fast speaking repetitive short sentences until some limited idea has been understood, thereafter children are merely comparing judgements needing only to assume a single idea?

Are children being coached to listen to fast moving 30 second media commercials; fast moving sports; fast sounding music... under the allusion of learning letters and numbers.

Fast worded songs can be heard; Fast scene changes rather than time to remember images, relating images to words. Pentagram symbols are placed in prominent places.

In this particular Sesame Street episode, a talking puppet cow had many snakes attached to the cow's head. The cow was portraying Medusa showing ancient Athenian Parthenon in the background. Cookie Monster was doing the 3 shell game... three food lids covered a single plate of snake cakes having replaced a green pea. Two out of 3 lids had a single pentagram.