Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Arthur Highetwas a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1906
intimate-conversation dancing needs
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 sometimes like dancing and wordless music.
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A good teacher is a determined person
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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?
hate school boys
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 it.
reading light important
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 light of matches which keep blowing out.
effort mind growing
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 it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.
real men soul
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 possession: his soul.
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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
teacher teaching believe
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
teaching effort might
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
children character knives
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, but put permanent scars on their souls.
learning laughing people
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 of human beings enjoying its existence.
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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 longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
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A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.