Gilbert Highet Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

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

  Gilbert Highet

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

• A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

  Gilbert Highet

  Wise, Teacher, Teaching

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

• A good teacher is a determined person

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Determined, Good Teacher

• Like 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 Highet

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Art of Teaching".

• The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

  Gilbert Highet

  Wise, Teacher, Laughter

• Wherever 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 Highet

  Teacher, Teaching, Justice

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

• Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Three, Rewards

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

• Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Nice, Years

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

• The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Dresses, Littles

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

• At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, School, Class

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

• You [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 Highet

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

  "Art of Teaching".

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