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> [The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/the-chief-aim-of-education-is-to-show-you-after-you-make-a-livelihood/)

[Gilbert Highet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-highet/)

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## More by Gilbert Highet

> [These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/these-are-not-books-lumps-of-lifeless-paper-but-minds-alive-on-the/)

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> [The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/the-art-of-invective-resembles-the-art-of-boxing-very-few-fights-are/)

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> [The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/the-wise-teacher-knows-that-55-minutes-of-work-plus-5-minutes/)

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> [The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/the-real-duty-of-man-is-not-to-extend-his-power-or-multiply-his/)

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> [Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/poetry-is-halfway-between-prose-and-music-it-is-sometimes-like-an/)

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> [Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/many-of-the-snarly-bad-tempered-teachers-whom-we-remember-with-hatred/)

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> [“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/books-are-not-lumps-of-lifeless-paper-but-minds-alive-on-shelves/)

[Gilbert Highet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-highet/)

> [What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/what-is-politics-but-persuading-the-public-to-vote-for-this-and/)

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> [History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/history-is-a-strange-experience-the-world-is-quite-small-now-but/)

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> [“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/these-are-not-books-lumps-of-lifeless-paper-but-minds-alive-on-shelves/)

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> [Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/most-americans-do-not-like-poetry-we-may-respect-it-but-we-do-not/)

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> [Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/nobody-has-ever-thought-himself-to-death-the-chief-danger-confronting/)

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> [The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/the-mind-never-need-stop-growing-indeed-one-of-the-few-experiences/)

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> [Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/bad-teaching-wastes-a-great-deal-of-effort-and-spoils-many-lives/)

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> [A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-highet/a-very-wise-old-teacher-once-said-i-consider-a-day-s-teaching-wasted/)

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