“I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.” IfsThinkingKnowsChildrenPlayGamesCrazyHappeningsConsequenceOur ChildrenClimateAtmosphereGlobal WarmingPredictableGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:William J. Clinton
“Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.” ShouldChildrenGamesCommonBehaviorOur ChildrenBe GoodCommon SensePositivelySadistic Author:Sam Brownback
“Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.” ThinkingWayWantMindChildrenSometimesHandsEyeGamesIntelligentOur ChildrenYour ChildrenCoordinationSuppleLateral Thinking Author:Salman Rushdie
“You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.” WayFeelsChildrenPlayShowsKidsGamesComputerHappeningsOur ChildrenInsightYour ChildrenPrompts Author:Seymour Papert
“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.” WorldChildrenStoriesTodayMovingGamesBornPiecesTomorrowOur Children Author:Jonathan Sacks
“The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.” MenChildrenTwoYoungGamesViolenceMediaConsequenceOur ChildrenInstinctActiveVideoMortalsYoung ManKillersDoomNumbParticipantsKiller InstinctConsequences Of ViolenceMortal Kombat Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999
“And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.” IfsWorldChildrenSaidCountryGovernmentJobsTurnsGamesParentCommunityAttitudeDoubtTvsActivityOur ChildrenObligationVideoEngagedNo DoubtFundPassiveOur CommunityTurn Off Author:Barack Obama
“Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!” ChildrenGamesVisionRiskFutureOur ChildrenStartingRelativePreparingSustainable DevelopmentFlickerFull LifeNeonGame OverNeon Sign Author:Dave Hampton