Quotes by : Gilbert Highet

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

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

Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation....

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the....

A good teacher is a determined person.