#QUOTES: Wanna Go Play?

September 1, 2022

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The OnlySchoolers are talking Early Childhood in this episode, and the quotes we're tackling are:

• “Play is the work of childhood.” - Jean Piaget

• “Play is the work of the child.” - Maria Montessori

• “Play is the work of children. It’s very serious stuff.” - Captain Kangaroo

• “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning.” - Fred Rogers

• “Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” - Fred Rogers

• “Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” - Plato

• “It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” - Leo Buscaglia

• “It is a happy talent to know how to play.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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