Free the Grownups

MIYAZAKI: They are trying to shorten childhood, which is the best time of one’s life. I’m afraid the world of children changes when they learn how to read and write. From what I saw of my own children, when they didn’t know how to read and write and didn’t yet have the ability to grasp abstract matters, they were so free in making wonderfully inven

'Once you were a child. Once you

knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions

because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them.

Become that child again: even now.' —C.S. Lewis