7 Quotes & Sayings By Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet was born in London, in 1903, and educated at King's College, Cambridge. He has worked as a medical officer of health for the Greater London Council and the Ministry of Health, and he has also been an educational psychologist and tutor in history at Oxford University. He is the author of over twenty books on history and biography. He lives in London.

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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 button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. Gilbert Highet
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Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55) Gilbert Highet
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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. Gilbert Highet
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A good teacher is a determined person. Gilbert Highet
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. Gilbert Highet
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? Gilbert Highet