We have a tendency to separate play and education. As if education shall be much more serious and play has no place in or around classrooms, but only in breaks and school gardens. We shoo away play out of our homes as well sometimes. You can’t play here. Don’t stand on the sofa! There we took away a very important learning opportunity from our child’s hands. He was going to see the home from another perspective, wasn’t he? Like a bird he was.

Each and every one of us need play, not only children. Let’s welcome this highest form of research in our lives, in our classrooms and in our homes if we ever made the mistake of letting it go.