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I did not even go to kinderga...

I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

It’s not whether children lea...

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 11 quotes

I wish I could tell you that ...

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

There is a young and impressi...

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 11 quotes

Probably any successful caree...

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

In South Africa, where HIV-po...

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 11 quotes

Big Bird was the biggest star...

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.'

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I thought it was quintessenti...

I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

The question for me was, coul...

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

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I was a TV producer at a nonc...

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 11 quotes

My degree was in education, b...

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 11 quotes

There is a young and impressio...

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 11 quotes

The question for me was, could...

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 11 quotes

In South Africa, where HIV-pos...

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 11 quotes

Probably any successful career...

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

I wish I could tell you that t...

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

It's not whether children lear...

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 11 quotes

Cherishing children is the mar...

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

There is a young and impressio...

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 11 quotes

One of the hardest things to t...

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.

Joan Ganz Cooney 11 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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