Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Sutton-Smith
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.
Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.
A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.
People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.
I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.
Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.
The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.
If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.
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.
To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.
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