Gilbert Highet Quotes

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Books are absent teachers.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

Men learn while they teach.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

To teach is to learn twice.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.