Schools across the country, private and public, are sacrificing pre-schoolers' time on the playground in favor of direct instruction in the belief that this type of formal lesson will create serious students down the road. Now, experts have proven this type of thinking wrong. They've shown instead that pre-schoolers learn a great deal from "just playing" and that children who aren't allowed to play run the risk of being worse students and thinkers in later years. Learn more about the importance of play in pre-school.
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