Children Playing Quotes

• 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.

  Fred Rogers

  Education, Children, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, World

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Play is the work of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Play, Montessori

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• You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Creativity, Artist

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• 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

  Children, Expression, Play

  Friedrich Fröbel (1912). “Froebel's Chief Writings on Education”

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• The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

  Plato

  Love, Inspirational, Education

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Penelope Leach

  Fun, Children, Educational

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

  Charles E. Schaefer

  Fun, Play, Alive

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• Play is really the work of childhood.

  Fred Rogers

  Play, Childhood, Work And Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Play, Understanding

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Reality, Playing Outside

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

  Gottfried Benn

  Education, Play, Want

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• Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

  Judith Rodin

  Children, Simple, Play

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• For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Play, Important

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• Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times.
  Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day.
  Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day.
  What's happened?

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, Children, Average

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• To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Humor, Play

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• Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

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• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Children, Science

  "V 65: New Challenges for human communications, Volume 4". Book by International Center for the Typographic Arts, Southern Illinois University, 1965.

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

  Garry Winogrand

  Children, Vacation, Play

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

  Pablo Neruda

  Children, Men, Play

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• It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Children, Playing Games, Self

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.73, Psychology Press

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