Taft School or Taft High School may refer to:
- Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, founded by Horace Dutton Taft, William Howard Taft's brother
Schools named after William Howard Taft:
- William Howard Taft High School (Los Angeles)
- William Howard Taft High School (Chicago), Illinois
- William Howard Taft High School (New York City), New York
- William Howard Taft High School (San Antonio, Texas)
Other schools:
- Taft Union High School Taft, California
- Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, also known as Taft High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, named for Robert A. Taft
- Taft High School (Lincoln City, Oregon), named for the former community of Taft, Oregon, which was named for William Howard Taft
- Taft High School (Texas), named after the community of Taft, Texas, which was named after Charles Taft
Famous quotes containing the words high school, taft, high and/or school:
“There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stun-guns, knucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)