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… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
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.… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
