The rules of grammar are crabbed things to many persons... it is important early to instil a taste for the best things into the minds of children, and I cannot see that anything is learned with greater success than what is learned by playing, and this is, in truth, a very harmless kind of fraud, to trick a person into his own profit.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Erasmus suggests teaching children through play to build interest in learning.
- In plain terms
- Let children learn by playing to succeed.
- What can you take from it?
- Play is an effective teaching tool.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can learning be both fun and serious?
- How do you teach best?
Another view
Playful methods may lack rigor for advanced topics.
More from Desiderius Erasmus
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Permalink to quote #14 There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
Permalink to quote #16 It is the friendship of books that has made me perfectly happy.
Permalink to quote #13
Related quotes
Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by …
William PennWilliam Penn quote #19 It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection betwe…
Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia quote #57 I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
Fran LebowitzFran Lebowitz quote #1