Buildings Quote by Michael Rosen

Performance poetry is not one genre. Some chant, sing and dance. Some stand rooted to the spot and stare. Some chat their way in…

— Michael Rosen

Anyway, once children get to talk, they seem to be finding ways to joke.

— Michael Rosen

When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher, was always…

— Michael Rosen

One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series and sequels.

— Michael Rosen

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it.…

— Michael Rosen

What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it - but…

— Michael Rosen

Yes, it's possible to play computer games on your own and many do. But I also see children playing them in pairs and fours…

— Michael Rosen

You can give up the best years of your life knowing that no matter what you do or how you do it, your step-child…

— Michael Rosen

We have an almost complete comprehensive primary school system in England. Surely, if grammar schools are some kind of answer to making education better…

— Michael Rosen

Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes.…

— Michael Rosen

Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving as individuals,…

— Michael Rosen

Cricket is great for families, so long as you don't play by the proper rules and adapt it so the youngest can be helped…

— Michael Rosen