Children Quote by J. G. Holland

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

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 is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and…

— Mike Yaconelli

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

— Friedrich Frobel

“Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and…

— Michael Yaconelli

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to…

— Martha Beck

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

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past…

— Rebecca Goldstein

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