Gilbert Highet — Scottish Writer born on June 22, 1906, died on December 30, 1978

Gilbert Arthur Highet was a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian... (wikipedia)

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
A good teacher is a determined person.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
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.