Belief Quote by Liz Truss

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

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

— Darell Hammond

There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it…

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Bob Keeshan

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

— Ben Miller

Whether were parents, carers, teachers or anyone working with young children, we know that children move easily and often between free play and structured…

— Michael Rosen

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

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 often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really…

— Fred Rogers

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

— Marianne Elliott

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless…

— Robin Marantz Henig