Inspirational Words

"Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside – children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it, the work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices". – Cathy Nutbrown

"Play energizes us and enlivens us. It eases our burdens. It renews our natural sense or optimism and opens us up to new possibilities". – Stuart Brown

"Play for young children is not recreation activity. It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met”. -James L. Hymes Jr.

 “The most beautiful thing under the sun, is being under the sun.” – Christa Wolf

 “The important thing is not to stop questioning...” – Albert Einstein