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 HighetYou [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.
Gilbert HighetLeisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
Gilbert HighetLike all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
Gilbert HighetThe 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