High School Opens

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

“I laugh at the lore and pride of man
At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“While most of today’s jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)

“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)