Aim Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

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

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

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 the child.

— Maria Montessori

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

Play is really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

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

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the…

— J. G. Holland

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

Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It…

— Bruno Bettelheim

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