Adults Quote by Erik Erikson

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

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

“Adults play in many of the same ways that kids do: by using our minds' eyes to see ourselves in new and different ways,…

— Ben Michaelis

In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head…

— Lev S. Vygotsky

“The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act fully grown.…

— Milan Kundera

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

— Bruno Bettelheim

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard…

— Maria Montessori

“‎The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche