“Cartile bune nu sunt doar carti, adica bucati de hartie moarta, ci minti vii asezate pe rafturi.” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet Being a teacher Copy Share Image
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. — Gilbert Highet Believe Copy Share Image
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live… — Gilbert Highet Aim Copy Share Image
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance. — Gilbert Highet Believe Copy Share Image
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from… — Gilbert Highet Civilization Copy Share Image
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves...far distant in time...speaking to us, mind to mind, heart… — Gilbert Highet Books Copy Share Image
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a… — Gilbert Highet Autobiography Copy Share Image
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New… — Gilbert Highet Branches Copy Share Image
Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students. — Gilbert Highet Knows Copy Share Image
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a… — Gilbert Highet Chiefs Copy Share Image
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity. — Gilbert Highet Demand Copy Share Image
If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching. — Gilbert Highet Boy and girl 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 Dose Copy Share Image
The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the… — Gilbert Highet Best school Copy Share Image
Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing… — Gilbert Highet Done Copy Share Image
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one… — Gilbert Highet Action Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own… — Gilbert Highet Alive Copy Share Image
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