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“We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.”

Source: Schools and Universities on the Continent

“The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.”

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Book:Plato's Best Thoughts

Source: Plato's Best Thoughts

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.”

Play Whole Today Left Education Aspect Tradition Western Debate Analysis Description Left Out

Author:Edward de Bono

“Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.”

Looks Made Hard Play Interesting Education Hard Work

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“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.”

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Author:Fred Rogers

“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.”

Want Play Education Inner Child Children Playing Child At Heart

Author:Gottfried Benn

“One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.”

Thinking Should Play Education Teaching

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.”

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Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer