If only the smiles and happiness evident in the faces of the kids would continue into adulthood.

Two dangerous activities are getting promoted through this sudden discovery of play. The modern educational paradigm is now out to kill the spontaneous nature of play and the last autonomous activity that children could do. My brother's son who has never been to school until he was 12 recently told me (when he was around 18) that if children know they are playing that is no longer play... For them, living is playing. Play as a separate activity is a modern invention. Children are playful and it is an inherent quality of being in the world. Playfulness is embedded in our biology. It is part and parcel of our beingness. So play as the quality has been turned into play as a fragmented and compartmentalized activity. Play is learning and play need not be used for teaching something else. If you closely observe what children do/make spontaneously (what in modern terminology is play) you will be able to decode how children are making sense of the world and how science is embedded in their activities and how qualities to learn- observation, exploration, creativity, imagination, reflection, abstraction, etc. I have around 4000 videos on spontaneous activities of children and have studied what they 'learn' and how children learn. Children in Bangalore slums speak 4 languages by they become 5 years old with no one teaching, no special effort to learn. Learning is not a choice. it the process of life. The unfortunate situation of modern humans is that they have never done research on HOW children LEARN and what is their natural content of learning. We are busy teaching them, helping them, controlling them with our superiority complex, undermining the life's process and them by infantilizing children for life. (We ourselves are probably infantilized due to us going through education) It is time we learn FROM children and not teach them as the educated are cognitively damaged because they have been learning the WORD (description) instead of the WORLD (experience) and their ability to create knowledge has been replaced with the ability to analyze. See the explorations we did at sadhana village school (re-imagining schools experiment), near Pune (school is closed now)

I like the way everything was setup. Kids was having lots of fun with learning and playing . I would like to see something like that here hope we can do that for kids here thanks.

I learned it in my class

I'm Kendra's daughter and I'm 8 I wonder why people say playing is learning