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.
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… - Gilbert Highet
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…
- Gilbert Highet
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 b… - Gilbert Highet
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 b…
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. - Gilbert Highet
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death. - Gilbert Highet
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. - Gilbert Highet
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. - Gilbert Highet
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. - Gilbert Highet
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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 … - Gilbert Highet
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 …
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 s… - Gilbert Highet
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 s…
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