Gilbert Highet Quotes
- The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
- Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
- If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.
- You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc.…
- 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 how…
- The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
- Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out,…
- People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
- He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group…
- A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
- The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.