Margo Georgiadis Quotes

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.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

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

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.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

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.

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.

It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

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.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

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

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.