Best quotes by Brian Sutton-Smith on Children

Checkout quotes by Brian Sutton-Smith on Children

• ‟ The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

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• ‟ For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

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• ‟ I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

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• ‟ Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

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• ‟ Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

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