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Type: Writer Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes Date of Birth: June 22, 1906 Year of Death: 1978 Nationality: Scottish Find on Amazon: Gilbert Highet Related Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson Mark Millar Frances Wright Henry Drummond Iain Banks John Wilson Robert Chambers |
A good teacher is a determined person.
Gilbert Highet A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. Gilbert Highet 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. Gilbert Highet Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death. Gilbert Highet 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. Gilbert Highet The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. Gilbert Highet These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Gilbert Highet What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? Gilbert Highet |
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