“Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.”
Source: Men of the Otherworld
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Variant: Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

“You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”

"On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25
Context: Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

“Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.”
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins

Introduction, sect. 6
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)