#school

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#class #country #discover #high #high school

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#freshman #freshman year #high #high school #i

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. ↗

— John E. Walker

#captain #cricket #i #keen #school

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#age #attended #away #better #crossed

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #neighborhood

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#alexander #enjoyed #head #his #never

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#high #high school #kids #percent #school

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#ceased #country #course #equipped #first

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century