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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
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Edward Hirsch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 20
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I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.
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But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.
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