High School Attached To Tsinghua University
The The High School Attached to Tsinghua University (simplified Chinese: 清华大学附属中学; traditional Chinese: 清華大學附屬中學; pinyin: Qīnghuá Dàxué Fùshŭ Zhōngxué), or Tsinghua High School for short (simplified Chinese: 清华附中; traditional Chinese: 清華附中; pinyin: Qīnghuá Fùzhōng), is one of the most prestigious and historically-significant high schools in China, located in Beijing.
Read more about High School Attached To Tsinghua University: Translation of Its Name, Location, Faculty, Achievement in Teaching and Training, Recent Events, Notable Alumni, Sister Schools
Famous quotes containing the words high school, high, school, attached and/or university:
“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)
“A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to know that they exist, though he may have cut many tons of them, littered his stables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years. Yet, if he ever favorably attends to them, he may be overcome by their beauty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they’re attached to dollar signs—unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendents who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)