Folk High Schools

Famous quotes containing the words folk, high and/or schools:

    “In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation’s culture and one of the by- products of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.”
    —Martin Carthy (b. 1941)

    “Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
    For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
    Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
    Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
    And Usna’s children died.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)