A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Gilbert HighetThe young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
Gilbert HighetMany of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.
Gilbert HighetWherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.
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 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