{"id":789,"date":"2021-06-18T07:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strong-wp.cloud.fruitionqa.com\/?page_id=789"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T15:09:15","slug":"play-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/about\/play-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"heroInternal__bgImage \" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Sesame-400.jpg');\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"heroInternal bgGradient bgGradient__small\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Sesame-400.jpg');\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n                <h1>Play Quotes<\/h1>\n                <svg id=\"animateLink\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 300 11\"><g id=\"Layer_2\" data-name=\"Layer 2\"><g id=\"Layer_1-2\" data-name=\"Layer 1\"><path stroke=\"#ffd204\" fill=\"none\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" stroke-width=\"5\" class=\"cls-1\" d=\"M0,2.5c8.82,0,8.82,6,17.65,6s8.82-6,17.64-6,8.82,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.64-6,8.83,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.64-6,8.82,6,17.64,6,8.83-6,17.65-6,8.82,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.64-6,8.83,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.65-6,8.82,6,17.64,6,8.83-6,17.65-6,8.83,6,17.65,6,8.83-6,17.66-6,8.82,6,17.65,6\"><\/path><\/g><\/g><\/svg>\n                                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n            <ul id=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumbs\"><li class=\"item-home\"><a class=\"bread-link bread-home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\" title=\"Homepage\">Homepage<\/a><\/li><li class=\"separator separator-home\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"breadsep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/images\/triangle-right.svg\"> <\/li><\/ul>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background-color:#ffffff;padding-bottom:5%;padding-top:5%\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-container alignfull gb-block-container\"><div class=\"gb-container-inside\"><div class=\"gb-container-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-layout-columns-1 one-column gb-columns-center\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-2 gb-is-responsive-column\" style=\"max-width:1053px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>It\u2019s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Fred Rogers<br>American television personality<br>1928\u20132003<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play is the foundation of learning, creativity, self-expression, and constructive problem-solving. It\u2019s how children wrestle with life to make it meaningful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Susan Linn<br>Contemporary American psychiatrist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Risky play is really important for kids\u2014all kids\u2014because it teaches hazard assessment, it teaches delayed gratification, it teaches resilience, it teaches confidence. When kids get outside and practice bravery, they learn valuable life lessons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Caroline Paul<br>Author and former firefighter<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play is foundational for bonding relationships and fostering tolerance. It&#8217;s where we learn to trust and where we learn about the rules of the game. Play increases creativity and resilience, and it\u2019s all about the generation of diversity\u2014diversity of interactions, diversity of behaviors, diversity of connections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Isabel Behncke<br>Field ethologist and primatologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>All meaningful, organic, and foundational learning is at heart playful and ludic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Marcelo Su\u00e1rez-Orozco<br>Contemporary American professor of education<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play is the primary way children were designed to learn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Kathy Hersh-Pasek and Roberta Golinkoff<br>Contemporary American psychologists<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Adults play too (or should).<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Julie Lythcott-Haims<br>Contemporary American educator<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>It\u2019s important that we don\u2019t underestimate the play of children because it can produce a much more satisfyingly creative adult.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Dorothy and Jerome Singer<br>American psychologists<br>1927\u20132016 and 1924\u20132019<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Playing a game together actually builds up bonds and trust and cooperation. We actually build stronger social relationships as a result.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Jane McGonigal<br>Game designer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play is the mediator of the invisible and visible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Dora M. Kalff<br>Jungian therapist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Our brains are built to benefit from play no matter what our age.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Theresa A. Kestly<br>Contemporary American psychologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The drive to play freely is a basic, biological drive. Lack of free play may not kill the physical body, as would lack of air, food, or water, but it kills the spirit and stunts mental growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Peter Gray<br>Contemporary American psychologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>My childhood play took me to extremes, and all of them, I now understand, were a fun way to test the social realities into which one is born. Surely this is a most important evolutionary function of play\u2014finding out what is fun and fair or not fair on the field of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Jaak Panksepp<br>Neuroscientist and psychobiologist<br>1943\u20132017<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>It is a happy talent to know how to play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>American writer<br>1803\u20131882<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play is our brain&#8217;s favorite way of learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Diane Ackerman<br>Contemporary American author<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Johan Huizinga<br>Dutch historian<br>1872\u20131945<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Abraham Maslow<br>American psychologist<br>1908\u20131970<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The world of pretend play is one in which children can be free to express themselves, their ideas, their emotions, and their fantastic visions of themselves, of other people, and of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Sandra Russ<br>Psychologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Ursula K. Le Guin<br>Author<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The true object of all human life is play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>G. K. Chesterton<br>British author<br>1874\u20131936<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Fred Rogers<br>American television personality<br>1928\u20132003<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>A child loves his play, not because it\u2019s easy, but because it\u2019s hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Benjamin Spock<br>American pediatrician<br>1903\u20131998<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play has been man\u2019s most useful preoccupation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Frank Caplan<br>Contemporary American author<br>1911\u20131988<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>George Santayana<br>American philosopher<br>1863\u20131952<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>People tend to forget that play is serious.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>David Hockney<br>Contemporary British painter<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Kay Redfield Jamison<br>Contemporary American professor of psychiatry<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Do not\u2026keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Plato<br>Greek philosopher<br>427\u2013347 BC<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Surely all God\u2019s people\u2026like to play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>John Muir<br>American naturalist<br>1838\u20131914<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Roger von Oech<br>Contemporary American creativity guru<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Carl Jung<br>Swiss psychoanalyst<br>1875\u20131961<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>When the fun goes out of play, most often so does the learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Joanne E. Oppenheim<br>Author<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>You can&#8217;t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Maya Angelou<br>Writer and poet<br>1928\u20132014<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play matters because people matter. It reminds us of our interdependence and gives us a chance to really see other people. And in turn, to be really and truly seen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Jill Vialet<br>Founder of Playworks<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Lev Vygotsky<br>Russian psychologist<br>1896\u20131934<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Henri Matisse<br>French painter<br>1869\u20131954<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play is training for the unexpected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Marc Bekoff<br>Contemporary American biologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Joan Almon<br>Contemporary American educator<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>O. Fred Donaldson<br>Contemporary American martial arts master<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Lionel Tiger<br>Contemporary Canadian anthropologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>When children pretend, they\u2019re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Fred Rogers<br>American children\u2019s television host<br>1928\u20132003<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Carl Jung<br>Swiss psychoanalyst<br>1875\u20131961<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play is hard to maintain as you get older. You get less playful. You shouldn\u2019t, of course.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Richard Feynman<br>American physicist<br>1918\u20131988<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Children have always learned and created places for themselves through play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Donna R. Barnes<br>Contemporary American psychologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>There is for many a poverty of play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>D.W. Winnicott<br>British pediatrician<br>1896\u20131971<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Creativity and the world of the imagination\u2014the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child\u2014can be a way for us to survive tough times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Diane Paulus<br>Broadway theater director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person\u2014mind and body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity and intuition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Viola Spolin<br>American theater coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Through observing children at play, we recognize what their worries, concerns, and fantasies are. We learn about their basic needs, their feelings of love and anger, their rivalries and fears of failure, their secret wishes and desires.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Dorothy and Jerome Singer<br>American psychologists<br>1927\u20132016 and 1924\u20132019<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The very existence of youth is due in part to the necessity for play; the animal does not play because he is young, he has a period of youth because he must play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Karl Groos<br>German evolutionary biologist<br>1861\u20131946<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Jean Piaget<br>Swiss philosopher<br>1896\u20131980<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Pablo Neruda<br>Chilean poet<br>1904\u20131973<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>I believe that those boys who take part in rough, hard play outside of school will not find any need for horse-play in school.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Theodore Roosevelt<br>American president<br>1858\u20131919<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>D.W. Winnicott<br>British pediatrician<br>1896\u20131971<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it, none exists\u2014with it all things are possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Ida Tarbell<br>Journalist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Children who play creatively find multiple uses for objects. They can transform a blanket into a tent one day and a cave the next. A stick can be a magic wand, a sword, a lightsaber, or a mast for a schooner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Susan Linn<br>Child psychiatrist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Creativity in and of itself is important for remaining health, remaining connected to yourself and connected to the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Christianne Strang<br>Professor of neuroscience<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Now in myth and ritual the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. All are rooted in the primeval soil of play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Johan Huizinga<br>Dutch historian<br>1872\u20131945<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Erik H. Erikson<br>American psychoanalyst<br>1902\u20131994<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play\u2026. We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play\u2026it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Johan Huizinga<br>Dutch historian<br>1872\u20131945<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Robert Coles<br>Contemporary American child psychologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>American writer<br>1803\u20131882<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>So, in all these spheres\u2014in painting, sculpture, drawing, music, singing, dancing, gymnastics, games, sports, writing, and speech\u2014we can carry on to our heart\u2019s content, all through our long lives, complex and specialized forms of exploration and experiment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Desmond Morris<br>Contemporary British zoologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Play, while it cannot change the external realities of children\u2019s lives, can be a vehicle for children to explore and enjoy their differences and similarities and to create, even for a brief time, a more just world where everyone is an equal and valued participant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Patricia G. Ramsey<br>Contemporary American educational psychologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Gretchen Owocki<br>Contemporary American early childhood educator<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Anything that engages your creative mind\u2014the ability to make connections between unrelated things and imagine new ways to communication\u2014is good for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Girija Kaimal<br>Educator and art therapist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Imagination is the thing that differentiates us from other sentient species on this planet. We have the ability to place our attention in a past, present, or future. That is a uniquely human superpower.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Levar Burton<br>Actor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>We shouldn&#8217;t stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination. 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