Children Quote by Bruno Bettelheim

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation…

— Rachel Carson

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…

— Fred Rogers

There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it…

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Fred Rogers

Play is really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really…

— Fred Rogers

Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own…

— Daniel Goleman