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The Power of Playtime
not distinguish
between work
and
play...
essentially all of life was understood as
play.”
By Lauren Roberts
R
egardless of how you believe
humanity began years ago,
If all of life was play, then how did
I think we can all agree that
man was much more primitive before education, as it exists today, develop?
than he is now. What was life like many There is clearly an innate drive in adults
years ago? There are scientists and to teach their children everything they
archaeologists who speculate about know. As language developed, stories
were told and memorized
what life was like but we
to preserve the past. In
don’t truly know because
addition, a set of rules
we weren’t there. My
Something
established and
question is, how did
happened and life was
taught somehow.
humans learn many
stopped being all
years ago? I propose that
Something happened
play.
education during ancient
and life stopped being
times looked a lot like
all play. Work became a
play. In an article posted
reality. Education looked
on Psychology Today,
an educational researcher at Boston different in every culture. In most
College, Peter Gray, Ph.D. (2008) said, cultures, early on, children were subdued
“Anthropologists have reported that the by authorities until they submitted.
hunter-gatherer groups they studied did Formal education was started in the
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United States by Christians who
required their children to know rules
and the scriptures well. Education
was not established to take play
out of children’s lives. However, as
cultural pressure to prove self-worth
increased, the amount of time for
play decreased. Life began to look
different, and “children became
forced laborers.”
Peter Gray (2008) also said, “Play
and exploration were suppressed.”
In most cultures, willfulness, which
began as a good thing, became a
vice that authorities felt the need to
beat out of children. Children became
tools of gaining wealth because people
started to realize they could gain more
if children were working for them
and if their will was suppressed with
violence, they would become a source
of more wealth.
So, education developed as being the
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children’s work. But the idea of learning
through play kept trying to resurface.
In Germany, Friedrich Froebel created
kindergarten as a way of trying to get
children out of the workforce and into
a place of learning through play. He
said, “Play is the highest expression
of human development in childhood,
for it alone continued on pg 3
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trying to incorporate
their faith into their
profession. For the
majority of us who
have a relationship
with Jesus, we’ve read and been
taught the importance of being salt
and light, in every aspect of our
lives, including our jobs.
Awake School of Marketplace Leadership
F
or the majority of young
adults and college students,
the leap from the classroom to the
marketplace is one of uncertainty.
Most discover that they are unpre-
pared. Our modern higher edu-
cation system’s format consists
mainly of lectures, papers, and
classrooms.
ronment. Most professions today
demand the ability to identify
problems, research effective solu-
tions and implement successful
strategies. Projects are assigned,
and employees are expected to
complete most of it on their own.
However, for many, this rarely
extends beyond simply acting like
If navigating this transition a Christian and being nice. If you
into the workplace wasn’t hard have want to work with your faith
However, current job seekers enough, there’s a significant num- in the forefront, you might assume
land in a much different envi- ber of young new workers who are
continued on pg 2
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