Education Quote by Umberto Eco

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

— Jim Henson

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

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

— James Van Praagh

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

— Nicholas Johnson

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

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and…

— Edwin Newman

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving…

— Jeremy Bernstein

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

— Marshall McLuhan

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

— Groucho Marx

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

— Will McDonough

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

You sort of assume that everyone knows how television works, but they don't actually, why should they?

— Emily Maitlis