Childhood Quote by Caroline Pratt

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Play is really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

— Kellie Martin

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

— Maria Montessori

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

— Samuel Richardson

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

“A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of labor.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Joni Mitchell

The child becomes a person through work.

— Maria Montessori

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

— Polly Berrien Berends