Brian Sutton-Smith
Quotes by Brian Sutton-Smith
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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.
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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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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
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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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Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
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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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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.
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