text: what are the 3 most imprtant things that an early childhood educator must promote and teach to young children?   a love of learning should envelop everything including the 3 most important things...  a sense of the order in all things-- organizing, sequencing, sorting, finding patterns  development and refinement of the senses-- tactile experiences, sand and water play, fingerpaint, hot and cold, hard and soft etc  preservation and enhancement of natural curiosity and intelligence--though a constant feeding of "brain food" exposure to great stories and ideas, exotic places and people, folk tales, fables, fairy tales, classic stories, poems, songs,stories from history, stories about how the natural world works in the form of books, tapes, oral stories, puppet shows, songs, fingerplays etc.