Edward Hirsch Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

  Edward Hirsch

  Education, School, People

• There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

  Edward Hirsch

  Students, Sometimes, Poet

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

• I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Novelists, Bookstores

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin