School House Colours

Famous quotes containing the words school, house and/or colours:

    For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.
    Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)

    In Tsegihi,
    In the house made of dawn,
    In the house made of the evening twilight,
    In the house made of the dark cloud, ...
    Oh, male divinity!
    With your moccasins of dark cloud, come to us.
    —Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The sounding cataract
    Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
    The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
    Their colours and their forms, were then to me
    An appetite: a feeling and a love,
    That had no need of a remoter charm,
    By thought supplied, or any interest
    Unborrowed from the eye.—
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)