WORK AND PLAY.
The -most obvious difference between work and play, I eliould think, writes Mr H. R. Chillingworth in the Times Educational Supplement, ls that work is carried on under pressure from outside, while play is the result of internal stimulus, We play because we like to ; wo work because we have to. The difference accounts for the fact that, comparetl with play, work is continuous. Our impulses are soon exhausted ; if wo worked as we play we shouid accomplish littlo. Even in play mutual ptimulus is a great help, A solitary child does not play well. Two children at least are needed for carrying on anything so sustained and rational as a game, Work and play — activity externally and internally stimulated — we need both. In this Kfe of compromises we need the goad, if for no other reason, ut least to teach us to obey the internal stimulus. To produce our daily talo of bricks for our taskmasters, but to have time and energy enougb to do our own unstandardised work — this is best for most of us.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 15, 11 October 1937, Page 4
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