Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

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.

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.

Play is the work of childhood.

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

Kids want to build things, and we encourage them to be as imaginative as possible on the site.

Children are just little scientists.

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.

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.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

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.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

True play is creativity.

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.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

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.