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Gilbert Highet [1906-1978] Scottish
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Writer


Gilbert Arthur Highet was a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian.
Born in Scotland, Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-century teacher of the humanities in the United States. 

Teacher, Good, Health, Parenting, Politics

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A good teacher is a determined person. Good, Teacher
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. Health, Teacher
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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. Parenting
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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? Politics
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
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Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
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