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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
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.
— Gilbert Highet
Language is a living thing
— Gilbert Highet
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
— Gilbert Highet
Your views are now my own.
— Marvin L. Cohen
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
— Gilbert Highet
Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours ...
— Reginald Horace Blyth
Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart ...
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The only limit to what you can achieve is the limit you set for yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.
— Donald Trump
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.
— Gilbert Highet
If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.
— 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
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
— Gilbert Highet
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
— Gilbert Highet
Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!
— 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
Look for happiness under your own roof.
— Gretchen Rubin
The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.
— Gilbert Highet
Many generations are dependent on a man's understanding of his appointed purpose in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
A good teacher is a determined person.
— Gilbert Highet
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.
— Gilbert Highet