Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learni… — Fred Rogers

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.

Fred RogersCelebrity · American · 1928 – 2003

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. — Mark Twain
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken
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