A man, a woman only plays when he or she is human in the fullest sense of the word and he or she is only human in the fullest sense of the word when he or she plays .... (from Friedrich Schiller) the essence of plays is more than the incidental or insignificant occurance and frivolous activity in human development that it has been construed and pictured as being by popular imagination. (Children and play in the Holocaust - games amongst the shadows, book)
Unfortunately, play is still regarded by some as a luxury rather than a basic human need and children's universal right