The article, "Play and Work in the Curriculum," basically addresses the issue whether children should be able to have play and work time in school, and that play and work are a major part of learning. The article explains how children start learning things at a young age, before they get to school. The children learn through experience and by playing, and this is how they begin to learn things at such a young age. It also says how children should learn new things from what they already know. If a child is learning something new, then the teacher should start where the child already knows and go on from there. This way they can use what the child already knows and expand on it to explain their ideas.

The article expands on how the children should have work and play in school in order to teach students...