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Brian Sutton-Smith
American Psychologist
Adult Away Children Play Tend Violent
Related authors: Abraham Maslow Angela Duckworth B. F. Skinner Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Erik Erikson Phil McGraw Wayne Dyer
Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life. Brian Sutton-Smith
Life Time Babies Once Feature Adult Adult Life Taken Taken For Granted Toys Were Granted Now Soft
A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine. Brian Sutton-Smith
Seen Machine Both Toy Intellectual
I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality. Brian Sutton-Smith
Reality Caricature Adult Toys Understand Trying Children Literal Keep Why Imaginative Phenomenon
Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe. Brian Sutton-Smith
Universe Our Evolution Reconciled Feature Remains Major Becoming Method Begins Play Present
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression. Brian Sutton-Smith
Behavior Observe Often Just Really Aggression Teachers Many Playful Violent
Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it. Brian Sutton-Smith
You Action Frame Everything Once Put Always Real Get Quite Movement Fantasy Acres Belief Play
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. Brian Sutton-Smith
Beautiful Marriage Possibilities Kinds Over Make-Believe Stimulation Hits Map Playful
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. Brian Sutton-Smith
Character Too Much Believe Vain Too Willful Weakness Willingness About More Consumerism Instead Like Involves Venture Sound Passionate Itself Often Human Being Which Fantasy Much Theories Many Even Play
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish. Brian Sutton-Smith
Rubbish Assumption Has-Been Adult Been Decades Children Played
It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress. Brian Sutton-Smith
Mistake Progress Try Deliberately Developmental Use Foster Play
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults. Brian Sutton-Smith
Kid Tend Adult Same Who Play Violent
One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind. Brian Sutton-Smith
Great Reflection Mind Imagination Further Responses Kinds Objects Area Fact Through Adult Developed Allowing Toy Toys Sort Where Belief Novelty Activity Play Thinks Imaginations

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