Morgan Park High School (known as Empehi), located in Chicago, Illinois, at the intersection of 111th street and Vincennes Avenue (11100 South and 1700 West), is a public high school that opened its doors on its current site in 1916, as part of the Chicago Public Schools.
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“Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.”
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)
“Borrow a child and get on welfare.
Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk
back ...”
—Susan Griffin (b. 1943)
“When I was in high school I thought a vocation was a particular calling. Here’s a voice: “Come, follow me.” My idea of a calling now is not: “Come.” It’s like what I’m doing right now, not what I’m going to be. Life is a calling.”
—Rebecca Sweeney (b. 1938)
“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)