Alive Quote by Lynda Barry

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 the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own…

— Daniel Goleman

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 childhood.

— Jean Piaget

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 highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.”•…

— Friedrich Frobel

Play is really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports.…

— Richard Louv

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need which has…

— Bruno Bettelheim