Television Education Quotes

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

I never really grew up watching TV.

I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from.

There was no other training ground like kids' telly for becoming a TV presenter.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

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

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

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

To be very honest, I owe it all to TV, it has made me what I am today. I've learnt the craft from it.