Play Quotations

7/30/2019 Play Quotations

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It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Play is our brain's favourite way of learning."

Diane Ackerman, Contemporary American author


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When children pretend, they're using their imaginations to

move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic

wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be asuperhero.

Fred Rogers

"Play is the highest expression of human development in

childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a

child's soul."

Friedrich Froebel

"The creeping culture of risk aversion and fear of litigation ...

puts at risk our children's education and preparation for adult

life,"

Judith Hackitt, July 2011

"The best classroom and the richest cupboard is roofed only

by the sky"

Margaret McMillan

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a

ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves

crash over the quayside-children have their own agendasand timescales. As they find out more about their world and

their place in it; they work hard not to let adults hurry them.

We need to hear their voices.

Cathy Nutbrown


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"Let nature be your first teacher "

St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090-1153

"Play is the highest form of research"Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For

knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the

entire world ..."

Albert Einstein

"Letting children go out to play is one of the best things that

parents can do for their health"

Prof Roger Mackett

The most effective kind of education is that a child should

play amongst lovely things.

Plato

Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.

Stuart Brown, MD

"Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs,

tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries,

acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies,

woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet,

hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries

and hornets. And any child who has been deprived of these

has been deprived of the best part of education."

Luther Burbank


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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in

a year of conversation.Plato

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can

unfold.Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play has been mans most useful preoccupation.

Frank Caplan
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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

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for

survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed

in adult life

Susanna Miller

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other

adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human

experience.

Johan Huizinga

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Martin Buber
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Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that

is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesnt taste goodLucia Capocchione

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of

whatever a body is not obliged to do.Mark Twain

We dont stop playing because we grow old; we grow old

because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of

strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

What do parents owe their young that is more important than a

warm and trusting connection to the earth?

Theodore Roszak

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to

guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel when

introducing a young child to the natural world. If facts are the

seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the

emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in

which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the

time to prepare the soil.Rachel Carson

Without continuous hands-on experience, it is impossible for

children to acquire a deep intuitive understanding of the natural

world that is the foundation of sustainable development. .A

critical aspect of the present-day crisis in education is that

children are becoming separated from daily experience of the

natural world, especially in larger cities.Robin C. Moore and Herb H. Wong
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If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then

let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, the more

slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I

think the same is true of human beings.

David Sobel,

Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as

one of the most important events in their lives.

Thomas Berry

"Children are born with a sense of wonder and an affinity forNature.

Zenobia Barlow


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"Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of

Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact

creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They

seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We

no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy

of the heavens."

Wendell Berry

Children have a natural affinity towards nature. Dirt, water,

plants, and small animals attract and hold childrens attention for

hours, days, even a lifetime.

Moore and Wong

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