Children Quote by Frank Caplan

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

It is not an exaggeration to say that play is as basic to your child's total development as good food, cleanliness, and rest.

— Joanne E Oppenheim

Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to…

— Jill Vialet

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

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

— Fred Rogers

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

— Bob Keeshan

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

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 best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to…

— Darell Hammond