Action Quote by Jerome Bruner

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 a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

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 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

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

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

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 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

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

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