A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
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