A Quote by Jim Henson

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

Jim Henson

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Basically Teaching Television Want Whether

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Jim Henson
American - Entertainer
September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990

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

Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching - whether it is television or books. We should all share.

Mary Berry

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

Madeleine L'Engle

The truth is, I should have never done teaching. I did teaching because I didn't have the bottle to have a go at comedy. Whether there's any gain to comedy is not for me to say. But certainly it was no loss to teaching.

Greg Davies

Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.

Alexandra Daddario

One person was basically saying that feminists aren't interested in criminalizing prostitutes, that they don't want to do that. I responded that whether or not they want to, that is what is happening on the ground.

Melissa Gira Grant

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

Nicholas Johnson

Whether you want more money, whether you want more fame, whether you want more attention, whether you want a bigger house, whether you want a bigger contract, whatever it is you want, you have to win your next fight. That's it.

Benson Henderson

I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.

Louis Walsh

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Crawford

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something.

Steve James

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

Charles Schumer

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.

Philippe Perrin

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.