Which is more important for children, emotional development or intellectual development?

I believe that it’s more important to form emotional development at the first priority than intellectual development.

First, I consider emotional aspect is same as habits. It's very difficult to stop or change habits. As proverb goes, Habit is a second nature. It’s important to strengthen the emotional foundation at the early stage. To the contrary, we can change or modify intellectual interest later. For example, I hate conflict. I try to avoid conflict as much as possible. As is often the case, I end up compromising. But it’s better than stress caused by conflict. I did not change this emotional habit and I will not change. On the other hand, we can adjust intellectual development according to the situation. I didn’t realize the importance of English when I was student. But now, I recognize it with globalization and I believe that it’s not too late to make an effort to improve my English. We can compensate for the time loss if necessary.

Second, we need to maintain patience as a part of emotional aspect. I believe that more or less we demand patience to master something or learn something. Patience plays an important role to maintain continuance. For example, I majored in Physics in my university days. It was so pain in the neck to learn esoteric equations such as Einstein equation, Maxwell equation, Schrodinger equation whatever. Those are all basic equations to describe physical phenomenon. It’s tough to understand them. But my curiosity to know the meanings of those equations kept my patience. This is not a matter of intellectual factor but a matter of emotional factor.

In conclusion, emotional development is inevitable in education.