“The parts of the brain that are most developed in the early years are the ones that respond to active experiences.”

Dee Ray, a professor of early childhood education and director of the Center for Play Therapy at the University of North Texas College of Education.

“Play is one of the main ways that children really consolidate their learning. The way we really make our skills permanent and enriched and highly developed, is often through our play experiences.”

Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology

“Train up a child in the way he should go”

Elder L. Tom Perry

Quorum of the Tweleve Apostles