Benefits for emotional and social growth in pre-schoolers: Importance of preschool education is that it helps in a child's emotional, social growth. When a 3-year old is able to spend time with adults other than parents they learn to build trusting relationships with adults. Preschool is the first experience of the child in a structured setting, to learn the importance of sharing and learn new things which fosters social growth. Although a child learns to talk while at home, in a preschool continuous interaction and exposure with children of the same age group and with teachers helps them to enhance their communication skill. It involves transformation of mental images to languages so that thoughts and knowledge can be transformed into information. Exposure to rich language through role plays, read aloud sessions and stories helps to enhance the child's vocabulary, thereby promoting language skills. A quality early childhood education provides children with cognitive, behavioural and social skills they cannot learn at home. Therefore, to build readiness for learning and immerse the child in inquiry based learning, preschool education plays a important role.