Gilbert Highet Quotes

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• Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils…
• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought…
• A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
• Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just…
• The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable…
• 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…
• A good teacher is a determined person
• The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the…
• I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
• Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
• Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.
• Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and…
• Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.
• The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he…
• Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires,…
• At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does…
• The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created…

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