"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents"
- Eric Hoffer
About this Quote
Eric Hoffer was an American social theorist that believed that the source of technology as well as imagination was the internal kid in every person. According to him, each person's individuality as well as creativity originate from their capacity to watch the world via the eyes of a kid.
Hoffer even more suggests that the optimum environment for this creativity is a play ground or a favorable atmosphere where one's all-natural potential might be created and also developed. He stresses that kids must be motivated to play and experiment in natural habitats that enable disorganized play and risk-taking. This would certainly produce a setting that fosters imagination and advancement.
Hoffer's idea suggests that creative thinking is a natural human characteristic, which can be released by developing the appropriate atmosphere. The quote can be interpreted as a contact us to action for grownups to revive the spirit of play in themselves as well as their kids, producing a dynamic atmosphere that can inspire cutting-edge thought, foster natural curiosity, and cause one-of-a-kind and also creative ideas.
This quote is written / told by Eric Hoffer between July 25, 1902 and May 21, 1983. He was a famous Writer from USA.
The author also have 85 other quotes.
"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers"
"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game"
"Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong"
"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery"
"Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream"
