Quotes about play.

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

Plato

Play is the child’s most useful tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

Bruno Bettelheim

Play is the highest form of research.

Albert Einstein

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning…

Mr. Rogers

The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.

Dr. Spock

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Abraham Maslow

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Jean Piaget

(Apologies for all the his/him, but clearly these individuals hail from a different era.)