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
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.
teaching effort might
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
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.
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.
wind water stupidity
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.
students like-you subjects
Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.
pieces branches bud
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, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
teacher teaching years
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. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.
unattainable demand sincerity
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.