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

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

- Gilbert Highet

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

- 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 …

- 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

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

- 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…

- 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.

- Gilbert Highet