{"id":23693,"date":"2025-02-18T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T23:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plato-philosophy.org\/?post_type=teachertoolkit&#038;p=23693"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:19:54","slug":"you-cant-say-you-cant-play-by-vivien-gussin-paley-1992","status":"publish","type":"teachertoolkit","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/teachertoolkit\/you-cant-say-you-cant-play-by-vivien-gussin-paley-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Say You Can&#8217;t Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In<strong> <\/strong><em>You Can\u2019t Say You Can\u2019t Play <\/em>(Paley, 1992)<em>,<\/em> MacArthur Prize-winning educator Vivien Paley describes her introduction of a new rule \u2014 \u201cYou can\u2019t say you can\u2019t play\u201d \u2014 in her kindergarten classroom. 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