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Joan Ganz Cooney

  • “We know that young and impressionable minds out there are very hungry for information and capable of receiving it and storing it, in large doses, beginning soon after birth. Those minds have latched on to the electronic tube as their main source of nourishment.”

    • Joan Ganz Cooney,
    • in The P.T.A. Magazine ()

  • “Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.”

    • Joan Ganz Cooney,
    • in Time ()

Joan Ganz Cooney, U.S. TV producer, creator of "Sesame Street," founder Children's Television Workshop

(1929)