High School Independent

Famous quotes containing the words high, school and/or independent:

    Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.”
    Stella Chess (20th century)

    It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.
    —Advertisement. Poster in a school near Irving Place, New York City (1983)

    I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)