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http://www.museumofplay.org/education/education-and-play-resources/play-quotes

Play energizes us and enlivens us. It eases our burdens. It renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.

Stuart Brown, MD
Contemporary American psychiatrist

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American writer
1803–1882

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Diane Ackerman
Contemporary American author

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.

Johan Huizinga
Dutch historian
1872–1945

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Abraham Maslow
American psychologist
1908–1970

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Joseph Chilton Pearce
Contemporary American scholar

The true object of all human life is play.

G. K. Chesterton
British author
1874–1936

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.

Fred Rogers
American television personality
1928–2003

A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.

Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
1903–1998

Testing for Intelligence

When Considering the whole child I feel their creativity should be tested. I believe this because when children grow up they have choices to do what they would like to do. Such as become an employee, become an entrepreneur, and or become a business owner. Children should be taught what is needed to succeed as an adult. I feel like schools focus on testing children rather than teaching children. Most teachers teach children how to take a test. Teachers jobs depend on how well children perform on standardized test. As a child I remember having testing anxiety and would stress out every time we would take a test. I often failed test but I knew the material because my teacher assessed me before and after. I feel children should be tested to ensure they know how to read and comprehend and count money. However I do not feel they should be given standardized testing. Every child is different and should be tested on their level. Teachers should assess children at the beginning of the year, the middle of the year, and the end of the year. Growth should be measured. For example if a child begin first grade only writing one sentence and at the end of the year can now write five complete sentences their growth should be measured over time since improvement was made.


I chose to share this article below because I can remember as a child the new would often talk out how well children are testing in China compared to the US. China test children often. I can't imagine being a child in china.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/inside-a-chinese-test-prep-factory.html?_r=0

The main street of Maotanchang, a secluded town in the furrowed hills of eastern China’s Anhui province, was nearly deserted. A man dozed on a motorized rickshaw, while two old women with hoes shuffled toward the rice paddies outside town. It was 11:44 on a Sunday morning last spring, and the row of shops selling food, tea and books by the pound stood empty. Even the town’s sacred tree lured no supplicants; beneath its broad limbs, a single bundle of incense smoldered on a pile of ash.



One minute later, at precisely 11:45, the stillness was shattered. Thousands of teenagers swarmed out of the towering front gate of Maotanchang High School. Many of them wore identical black-and-white Windbreakers emblazoned with the slogan, in English, “I believe it, I can do it.” It was lunchtime at one of China’s most secretive “cram schools” — a memorization factory where 20,000 students, or four times the town’s official population, train round the clock for China’s national college-entrance examination, known as the gaokao. The grueling test, which is administered every June over two or three days (depending on the province), is the lone criterion for admission to Chinese universities. For the students at Maotanchang, most of whom come from rural areas, it offers the promise of a life beyond the fields and the factories, of families’ fortunes transformed by hard work and high scores