The show teaches children roughly 1 to 3 years old about things like sharing, responsibility and caring.
We're Stuck!, an interactive maths, science and robots show, teaches kids not to be scared of making mistakes.
Again and again the show teaches children the terrible lesson that we don't need possessions to be happy.
If we have to sell toys in exchange for the good values the show teaches, I'd gladly buy Maria, Luis, Gordon and Susan action figures for my boys.
Monty Python used to do a sketch in which the host of a children's television show taught such broad lessons as "how to play the flute".
He's hosted a macrobiotic TV show, taught local schoolchildren about organic food and spent two years touring his homeland learning about the country's culinary traditions.
Among the other things the show teaches you: on Virgin America it's possible that your cabin crew will include women named Nikole, Farrah, Tasha and Mandalay.
But this show taught me that I did, and it kind of taught me how to maybe wrangle that fear and wrangle that shame a little bit and turn it into something a little more positive and little more productive".
Which brings us to one of the more surprising recent entries in the annals of teacher narrative: Tony Danza's A&E reality show, "Teach," and his accompanying book, both of which chronicle his attempt at teaching 10th-grade English.
