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Top 30 Gilbert Highet Quotes (2025 Update)

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.”

2. “Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “A good teacher is a determined person.”

3. “A good teacher is a determined person.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Gilbert Highet Quote: “These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.”

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

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Language is a living thing.”

6. “Language is a living thing.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.”

7. “Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.”

8. “Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.”

9. “The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.”

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Gilbert Highet Quote: “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 sometimes like dancing and wordless music.”

10. “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 sometimes like dancing and wordless music.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.”

11. “If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”

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

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.”

13. “People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.”

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

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.”

15. “Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Gilbert Highet Quote: “The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.”

17. “The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.”

18. “I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.”

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Gilbert Highet Quote: “The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.”

19. “The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.”

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Gilbert Highet Quote: “Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.”

20. “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

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, – forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.”

22. “Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, – forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.”

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Gilbert Highet Quote: “What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?”

23. “What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?”

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Gilbert Highet Quote: “History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.”

24. “History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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 by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.”

25. “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 by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.”

26. “Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Gilbert Highet Quote: “The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.”

29. “The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one’s own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one’s own conscious control.”

30. “The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one’s own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one’s own conscious control.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Quote: “A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day’s teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.”

32. “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

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