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Category: Gilbert Highet

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

Health, Value, Believe

A good teacher is a determined person.

Good, Good Teacher, Person

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Children, Parents, Between

Shakespeare’s bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so 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.

books, literature, reading, words

Shakespeare’s bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)