Education Quotes by Robert Hass

8 Education quotes by Robert Hass

Robert Hass’s eight verses blend poetry with insight, suggesting that education is both an art and a discipline. His lyrical approach invites readers to feel the resonance of learning beyond facts.

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I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public…

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Once you figure out something about the watershed, you'll find out where the schools are going to hell, and the kids aren't…

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In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which…

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You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also…

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A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

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I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with…

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Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with…

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I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now…

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Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

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If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…

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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

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When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of…

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One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in…

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“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine…

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