What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.Gilbert Highet
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.
Gilbert Highet
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.
Gilbert Highet
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Gilbert Highet
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
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
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