Play Quotes
Read these quotes to find out how play has been defined over time.
"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 Froebel
"Sometimes people forget that play is learning and learning is play."
Peter Dixon
"Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child."
Joan Almon
"It is becoming increasingly clear through research on the brain as well as in other areas of study, that childhood needs play. Play acts as a forward feed mechanism into courageous, creative, rigorous thinking in adulthood."
Tina Bruce
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
"Play fosters belonging and encourages cooperation."
Stuart Brown, M.D.
"Children learn and develop while they are playing."
Fraser Brown
"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."
D.W. Winnicott
"Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn."
O. Fred Donaldson
"Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself character that our future needs."
James L. Hymes, Jr
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Plato
"Play provision and play space that is stimulating and exciting allows children to encounter and learn about risk."
Charter for Children's Play - Play England
"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 find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play."
Fred Rogers
"Playing reduces stress, improves life, and increases creativity.Who doesn’t want that?"
Stevanne Auerbach
"The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives."
Leo Buscaglia
