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Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it’s not always a street. Sometimes it’s ‘Sesame Plaza,’ or ‘Sesame Tree.’ Picture Quote #1

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials! Picture Quote #1

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at ‘The United States Steel Hour,’ a drama series Picture Quote #1

Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children’s favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were ‘Big Bird.’ Picture Quote #1

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something Picture Quote #1

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn’t think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them Picture Quote #1

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Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society Picture Quote #1

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something Picture Quote #1

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment Picture Quote #1

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In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it’s not always a street. Sometimes it’s ‘Sesame Plaza,’ or ‘Sesame Tree.’ (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials! (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at ‘The United States Steel Hour,’ a drama series. (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children’s favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were ‘Big Bird.’ (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something. (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn’t think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them. (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes) There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment (Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes)