David Cage Quotes

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 children. It's very serious stuff.

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.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

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

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

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

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

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.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

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.

Play is the work of childhood.

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

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

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.

Children are just little scientists.