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

  Children, Teaching, Television

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• Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Children, Society, Cherish

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• 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

  Beer, Years, Tvs

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• 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

  Women, Memorable, Mind

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• 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

  Successful, Careers, Differences

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• 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

  Children, Luck, Wish

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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

  Children, Tree, Friendly

  "Q&A with Sesame Workshop Founder Joan Ganz Cooney". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. February 3, 2009.

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