“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” ChildrenWisdomKnowledgeHistoryLearningAdultsManagementAverageIntelligenceEducationalPsychologicalMentalityContrastRadiantMissing YouInner ChildDistressingChildren PlayingDifferent MentalityFeeble Minds Author:Sigmund Freud
“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.” ChildrenPlayAgeTodayUsedThreeGamesFourAdultsInfancyPastimeOnly ChildSpecializationChildren Playing Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life
“I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.” ChildrenAsksAdultsOur ChildrenYour ChildrenTennisPatheticChildren Playing Author:Billie Jean King
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.” LifeKidsDiesChildhoodAdultsFatherhoodCorpsesInner ChildChildren PlayingUnhappy Childhood Author:Brian Aldiss
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.” ChildrenSelfPlayWholeUseAbleIndividualCreativePersonalityAdultsBe CreativePlaying GamesChild DevelopmentChildren PlayingCreativity And LearningAdult Learning Book:Playing and Reality Source: Playing and Reality
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.” ChildrenPlayRealityStepsStageAdultsMasteryInner ChildChildren PlayingChildren ImaginationPlaytimePlaying Outside Book:Childhood and Society Source: Childhood and Society
“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.” InspirationalChildrenPlayMotivationalTogetherOrderEnergyEnemyCreativityCreativeAdultsOppositesIntelligenceBe CreativeMiraculousCarpe DiemCarpeInner ChildComing TogetherChildren PlayingImagination And CreativityImagination CreativityRelated To Creativity Author:Norman Podhoretz
“The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.” ChildrenLongStillsPlayBeliefGrowingAdultsAttractionDesirableBeneficialChildren Playing Author:Seth Roberts