Gilbert Highet Quotes

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

I hated school. Hated it.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student into their cultures. The result, in terms of motivated learners and test scores, often is spectacular.

Think about being a teenager and feeling like school is just about taking tests you may or may not be interested in, after which someone will judge whether or not you're smart. No one's going to be inspired by that.

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.

School is cool. Thats why it rhymes

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.