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The Role of Play in Development

The influence of play on a child’s development is enormous. Play is a leading factor in development, it brings about important internal transformations in the child’s development.  In play the child learns to act in a cognitive, rather than an externally visual, realm by relying on internal tendencies and motives and not on incentives supplied by external things. In play thought is separated from objects and action arises from ideas rather than from things. A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action and morality. In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior; in play it is as though he were a head taller than himself. As in the focus of a magnifying glass, play contains all developmental tendencies in a condensed form and is itself a major source of development.