Morgan Freeman Quotes

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream - to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Every time I come across learning items of interest, I'll send distribution voice mail to the appropriate group in the organization.

Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.

I always loved television. I always loved movies.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

Acquire knowledge and teach it to the people

Television was essentially my college.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

A biopic teaches you a lot.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

I try to educate myself as much as possible, as I do with the director and the designers and everyone I used to work with. It just helps, I think, with the frame of reference for who you're working with.

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.

A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.