High School is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, (Nov 11 1922-2007), US author, journalist; He is known for black-humor novels about the horrors of the 20th century, Slaughterhouse Five, 1969.