Dear Teacher: Play Is My Work

Margaret Mead is attributed with writing “It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age”(Baughman, 1958, p. 69). We’d argue that even our educational institutions and schools do not allow children to play except in…

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