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
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.
aim-of-education chiefs enjoy
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.
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.
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.
girl giving-up teaching
If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.
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 mind alive
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
people drunk habit
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.