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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

– Michael Jordan
American basketball player

The very existence of youth is due in part to the necessity for play; the animal does not play because he is young, he has a period of youth because he must play.

– Karl Groos
German Evolutionary biologist

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

– Jean Piaget
Swiss educational philosopher

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances to new stages of mastery.

– Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst

As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.

– Gretchen Owock
American Early Childhood Educator