“What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?”
Gilbert Highet“What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?”
Gilbert Highet“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”
Gilbert Highet“A good teacher is a determined person.”
Gilbert Highet“The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.”
Gilbert Highet“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)”
Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature