Quotes by Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet

A good teacher is a determined person

Determined

Good Teacher

Teacher

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.

Civilization

Country

Past

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

Education

Inspirational

Teacher

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

Teacher

Teaching

Wise

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.

Class

School

Teacher

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

Effort

Energy

Teaching

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.

Laughing

Learning

People

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.

Book

Home

Reading

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

Believe

Ignorance

Our Society

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

Girl

Giving Up

Teaching

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Aim Of Education

Art

Believe

Book

Boys

Bud

Character

Chiefs

Children

Civilization

Class

Country

Curiosity

Dancing

Demand

Determined

Dresses

Drunk

Education

Effort

Energy

Enjoy

Fear

Fighting

Fire

Girl

Giving Up

Good Teacher

Habit

Hate

Heart

Home

Ignorance

Important

Inspirational

Intimate Conversation

Justice

Language

Laughing

Laughter

Learning

Light

Like You

Littles

Living Things

May

Men

Mind

Needs

Nice

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet

A good teacher is a determined person

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Gilbert Highet

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu