"A good teacher is a determined person" — Gilbert Highet
"A good teacher is a determined person"
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Gilbert Highet
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31 Quotes by Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Highet has 31 quotes on this site.
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Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of…
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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…
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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…
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself…
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out…
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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to…
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The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you…
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The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document…
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I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by…
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Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most…
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More Determined Quotes
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one of 1,429 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
— Abigail Adams
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today,…
— Evan Bayh
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence…
— Jane Addams
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
— Aneurin Bevan
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
— Theodore Bikel
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
— Buffalo Bill
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what…
— Wade Boggs
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