Fantasma, I agree SO Much.
It's all about love. Not drill.
If we have a love of learning, music, books, stories words, rhymes and rhythms, and mostly a love of children, we will instill the conviction that learning is fun and they can succeed.

I disliked the way preschool education was going when I left it 10 years ago, the National curriculum seemed to be reaching down, and vouchers and inspection seemed to be forcing people to work in particular ways. I found that you could teach OR measure what children knew, it was very hard to do both at once