Play’s the thing

9th October 1998, 1:00am

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Play’s the thing

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Children under six learn more through play than formal lessons, says Professor Kathy Sylva.

The Oxford academic who heads a five-year-research project on early-years education told the BBC’s Panorama programme that academic lessons for very young children are “misguided”.

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