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
believe thinking people
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.
inspirational people done
People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
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.
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.
language living-things
Language is a living thing
teacher littles poverty
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.
teacher school class
At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.
unattainable demand sincerity
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
teacher rewards leisure
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
believe ignorance our-society
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
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.
wise teacher laughter
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.
book reading airplane
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.
students like-you subjects
Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.