iHeartKids loves to PLAY!
*Enjoy some of our favorite quotes about PLAY & LEARNING*
“Play is the highest form of research.”~ Albert Einstein (scientist)
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (writer)
“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” ~ Plato (Greek philosopher)
“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.” ~ Abraham Maslow (psychologist)
“The activities that are the easiest, cheapest, and most fun to do – such as singing, playing games, reading, storytelling, and just talking and listening – are also the best for child development.” ~ Jerome Singer (professor, Yale University)
“As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.” ~ Gretchen Owocki (childhood educator)
“Play is not only our creative drive; it’s a fundamental mode of learning.” ~ David Elkind (psychologist, author)
“Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself character that our future needs.” ~ James L. Hymes Jr. (child development specialist, author)
“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.” ~ O. Fred Donaldson (martial arts master)
“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 (British pediatrician)
“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 (Professor, London Metropolitan University)
“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 (Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood)
“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” Kay Redfield Jamison (professor of psychiatry)
“Play is the beginning of knowledge.” ~ Anonymous
“Play is MAGICAL, there are NO rules. Now get UP and GO, PLAY!”~iHeartKids
