You Cant Say You Can't Play Quotes

“If the room were always like this there would be no need for our new rule. Everyone is occupied with individual projects directed toward a goal created by the teacher. No one is excluded; every contribution will be given equal attention and find equal expression in the margins of the Magpie story. No problems here. The rule is needed for all those other times, the bulk of the day, when public and private needs and obligations are in conflict.”
― Vivian Gussin Paley, You Cant Say You Can't Play

“I am eager to expose “You can’t say you can’t play” to public scrutiny.
The teachers are cooperative and curious. They are quite used to my passionate espousals, and this is a problem about which there is widespread concern. In general, the approach has been to help the outsiders develop the characteristics that will make them more acceptable to the insiders. I am suggesting something different: The group must change its attitudes and expectations towards those who, for whatever reason, are not yet part of the system.”
― Vivian Gussin Paley, You Cant Say You Can't Play