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Gilbert Highet has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one…
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own…
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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…
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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…
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A good teacher is a determined person
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The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a…
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I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
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I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to…
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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.
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..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in…
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In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt…
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell…
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Take events logically one by one; ask yourself what is your dharma pertaining to a given event; and do it; and move…
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