High School Opens

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

“One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)

“and you’ll bargain with the calendar
and at the last moment
when death opens the back door
you’ll put on your carpet slippers
and stride out.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)