Memphis Technical High School is a now-closed high school that served downtown Memphis from 1911 to 1987. The current building was constructed in 1927. The beautiful building is still operated by the Memphis City Schools as The Northwest Preparatory Academy, serving children who are unable to function in a regular school environment.
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Famous quotes containing the words technical, high and/or school:
“In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power, and, in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We are all adult learners. Most of us have learned a good deal more out of school than in it. We have learned from our families, our work, our friends. We have learned from problems resolved and tasks achieved but also from mistakes confronted and illusions unmasked. . . . Some of what we have learned is trivial: some has changed our lives forever.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)