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Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.

I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.

We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.

Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.