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 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.
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.
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.
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.
teacher determined good-teacher
A good teacher is a determined person
teacher teaching believe
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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.
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.
language living-things
Language is a living thing
unattainable demand sincerity
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
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.
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.