ALMOST ALL CREATIVITY INVOLVES PURPOSEFUL PLAY Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, 1908-1970
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ALMOST ALL CREATIVITY
INVOLVES PURPOSEFUL PLAY.
(Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, 1908-1970)
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A child loves his play, not because it's easy, but because it's hard.
(Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, 1903-1998)
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In play, a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
(Lev Vygotsky, psychologist, 1896-1934)
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We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.
(Robert Coles, Contemporary American child psychologist)
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Play, while it cannot change the external realities of children’s lives, can be a vehicle for children to explore and enjoy their differences and similarities and to create, even for a brief time, a more just world where everyone is an equal and valued participant.
(Patricia G. Ramsey, Contemporary American educational psychologist)
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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.
(Leo F. Buscaglia, Education Specialist, 1924-1998)
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Game designers have a lot better take on the nature of learning than
instructional designers.
(Seymour Papert of MIT)
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Why are we even talking about "educational games"? - as if games weren't already educational!
(Will Wright, designer, Sim City and The Sims)
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Literature on school improvement is full of exhortations to make the content of instruction "relevant." .... But if one does belong to a culture in which video games are important, transforming oneself from a consumer to a producer of games may well be an even more powerful way for some children to find importance in what they are doing.
(Preface by Seymour Papert to Minds in Play by Yasmin Kafai)
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Anybody who makes a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either one.
(Marshall McLuhan)
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