William Godwin Quotes

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Play is the work of childhood.

I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.