Lucy Ward, from The Guardian, interviewed Hanne Rasmussen, head of the Lego Foundation, on how the company will focus on the value of play and how it has built enormously over the last decade. According to Rasmussen, if parents and governments push children towards numeracy and literacy at an earlier stage, they will be missing out on early play-based learning that helps the develop creativity, problem-solving and empathy.
“Both in the formal education system and in the homes of children, the focus on the value of play is rather limited. That’s really something we want to work on – to improve the understanding of the value of play and what play really can do, where more and more it is squeezed by a desire both from the formal system and from parents that children should learn specific literacy and numeracy quite early” says Rasmussen. Full blog
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