An episode from 6/26/21: These "Advice" episodes (originally called The Poet Speaks) will each feature a small collection of quotations on creativity from various artists, poets, and writers. The main quotations tonight wonder about the proper way for a "general" education to proceed, and each one laments the over-emphasis, in the last century, on theory and research in the teaching of the humanities. We hear from the historian Jacques Barzun (in his book From Dawn to Decadence), the diarist of Occupied Paris, Jean Guéhenno (in his Diary of the Dark Years), and Flannery O'Connor (in a few letters she wrote collected in The Habit of Being). Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

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