Play is the work of childhood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.
It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
A play is a passion.
Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.