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
book mind alive
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
teacher teaching justice
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 and we are all teachers.
book heart men
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 as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
teaching effort might
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
wise teacher teaching
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
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.
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.
teacher teaching believe
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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.
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.
political support promise
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
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.
teacher determined good-teacher
A good teacher is a determined person
teacher nice years
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.