Adults Quote by Bruno Bettelheim

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things…

— Penelope Leach

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

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 is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

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

As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play…

— Bruno Bettelheim

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 basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

— Frank Caplan

Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It…

— Bruno Bettelheim

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

— Helen Keller

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