"Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our……" — Edward Hirsch
"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."
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Edward Hirsch
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16 Quotes by Edward Hirsch
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have…
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're…
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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,'…
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents…
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More Cafeteria Quotes
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice…
— Zach Galifianakis
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace,…
— Edward Dahlberg
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I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays.…
— Roger Stone
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Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring…
— Russell M. Nelson
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You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers,…
— Unknown Author
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Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick…
— Caprice Crane
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Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many…
— Lois Capps
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Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a…
— Janet Parshall
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Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria…
— Michelle Obama
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Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.
— Brian Williams
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Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior…
— Alan Turing
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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask…
— Shirley Jackson
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