Let the Children Play

How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive

By: Pasi Sahlberg, William Doyle

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It's the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed - skills like creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and executive function. Expert organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control agree that play and physical activity are critical foundations of childhood, academics, and future skills - yet politicians are destroying play in childhood education and replacing it with standardization, stress, and forcible physical restraint, which are damaging to learning and corrosive to society.

But this is not the case for hundreds of thousands of lucky children who are enjoying the power of play in schools in China, Texas, Oklahoma, Long Island, Scotland, and in the entire nation of Finland. In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren.

©2019 Pasi Sahlberg and William Doyle (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Painful.

I found this to be extremely repetitive... basically the title restated differently for hours and hours... I was paid by my job to listen to it and still found it a painful waste of time despite my strong agreement with the concept...