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Edwardo 2022-09-20 15:52:18
This is the education we need for children
Fred Rogers is really good! This is the education we need for children!
Let children have self-confidence, can accept mistakes, and have the ability to love themselves and others.
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Hunter 2022-11-07 03:41:43
Rogers and others
The highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time, featuring an unusual children's TV producer, Fred Rogers. The program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" he self-edited and hosted has been broadcast live from the 1960s to the new century (the number of years is second only to "Sesame Street"),...
Won't You Be My Neighbor? quotes
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Hedda Sharapan: There was a wonderful quote from Fred: "The most important learning is the ability to accept and expect mistakes and deal with the disappointments that they bring."
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Tom Junod: Across the street from Fred's funeral, there's this hubbub, and there's all these people holding up signs saying, "God hates fags." And I went and talked to them because Fred would have it no other way. I said, "Are you condemning Fred? Are you saying that he was gay? Wh-what's... what's happening?" And they were saying that, "No, no, he just... He-he tolerated gays." And so they were... they were intolerant of the tolerance. And the thing that... the thing that struck me that day, uh, more than anything else was the children that were there. Children that had been drafted into doing this work, into standing there with their parents and holding up signs and screaming. And those kids looked so unhappy. Those kids looked so exhausted. Those kids looked so ill-treated. It was just heart-breaking. And I... and I knew that if Fred had seen that, that that's where his heart would have gone.
