Fred Rogers Quotes

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.

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.

Play is the work of childhood.

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

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

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

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.

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.

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

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.

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

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.

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

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

Children are just little scientists.

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.

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child's natural curiosity.

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.