Quotes about play
Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
--Diane Ackerman
Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child.
--Joan Almon
Play is training for the unexpected.
--Marc Bekoff
Whoever wants to understand much must play much.
--Gottfried Benn
Play fosters belonging and encourages cooperation.
--Stuart Brown
It is becoming increasingly clear through research on the brain as well as in other areas of study, that childhood needs play. Play acts as a forward feed mechanism into courageous, creative, rigorous thinking in adulthood.
--Tina Bruce
Play is the exultation of the possible.
--Martin Buber
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
--Leo F. Buscaglia
Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.
--O. Fred Donaldson
The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force…
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
People tend to forget that play is serious.
--David Hockney
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
--Kay Redfield Jamison
Children at play are not playing about. Their games should be seen as their most serious minded activity.
--Michel de Montaigne
As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.
--Gretchen Owocki
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
--Joseph Chilton Pearce
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning....They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.
--Fred Rogers
In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
--Lev Vygotsky
When you ask me what I've done at school today, and I say, "I just played," please don't misunderstand me. For you see, I'm learning as I play. I'm learning to enjoy and be successful in my work. I'm preparing for tomorrow. Today, I am a child and my work is play.
--Anita Wadley
--Diane Ackerman
Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child.
--Joan Almon
Play is training for the unexpected.
--Marc Bekoff
Whoever wants to understand much must play much.
--Gottfried Benn
Play fosters belonging and encourages cooperation.
--Stuart Brown
It is becoming increasingly clear through research on the brain as well as in other areas of study, that childhood needs play. Play acts as a forward feed mechanism into courageous, creative, rigorous thinking in adulthood.
--Tina Bruce
Play is the exultation of the possible.
--Martin Buber
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
--Leo F. Buscaglia
Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.
--O. Fred Donaldson
The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force…
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
People tend to forget that play is serious.
--David Hockney
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
--Kay Redfield Jamison
Children at play are not playing about. Their games should be seen as their most serious minded activity.
--Michel de Montaigne
As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.
--Gretchen Owocki
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
--Joseph Chilton Pearce
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning....They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.
--Fred Rogers
In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
--Lev Vygotsky
When you ask me what I've done at school today, and I say, "I just played," please don't misunderstand me. For you see, I'm learning as I play. I'm learning to enjoy and be successful in my work. I'm preparing for tomorrow. Today, I am a child and my work is play.
--Anita Wadley
