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 HighetLeisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
Gilbert HighetA teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Gilbert HighetThese 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