Children'S Play Quotes

12 quotes from 9 authors

Turn the page to a concise collection that probes the essence of children's play, from Barrie’s early timing to the pure joy of imagination. The quotes underline how play fuels creativity without a hidden agenda. Readers who love theatre for kids might also enjoy the creative education and imaginative storytelling sections.

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Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.

Virginia Axline

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When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in…

Fred Rogers

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I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself…

Seth Roberts

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Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its…

Northrop Frye

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In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death,…

Sinclair Lewis

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When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in…

Fred Rogers

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Meditation for me is not a children's play, it is a deep transformation. How to know this transformation? It is being reflected…

Rajneesh

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One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof…

Fred Rogers

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The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt…

Anonymous

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“THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD has produced a great many paradoxes. The most curious, however, may be that children have acquired more and…

Jennifer Senior

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“When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children's play, they are offering their students a text quite different…

James Hugh Comey

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I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests…

Fred Rogers

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