Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.

I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

Play is the work of childhood.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.

Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.

What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!

I happen to like children and I happen to like the arts.

School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for a couple of hours while they got some respite from you, and where you were able to see your mates.