Teacher Appreciation Quotes:

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

- Dan Rather

source: Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

topic: Thank You, Education, Dream, Wonderful Teacher, Great Teacher

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Light, Good Teacher, Wonderful Teacher

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

- Patricia Neal

source: Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Expectations, Inspiring Educational, Great Teacher

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

- Haim Ginott

source: "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Inadequate

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

- Helen Caldicott

source: Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Teacher, Believe, Fate, Wonderful Teacher, English Teacher

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Sprung, Inspirational Educational

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Appreciation, Math Education, Math Teacher

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

- Xunzi

topic: Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher, Live And Learn, Special Education

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

- John Wooden

topic: Teaching, Thinking, Our Society, Teacher Appreciation, Teaching Profession

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

- Jacques Barzun

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Educational, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

- Karl A. Menninger

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Retirement, Inspirational Teacher, Wonderful Teacher

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Art, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Educational, Modern Education

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

- Marva Collins

topic: Teacher, Trying, Firsts, Inspirational Teacher, Teacher Student

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Teacher Student, Student Learning

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Education, Wise, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

- Thurgood Marshall

topic: Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement, Ivy League, Bootstraps

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And Learning

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

- Gail Godwin

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Education, Good Teacher, Good Students

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspiring, Education, Appreciation, Inspiring Educational, Progress Of Society

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thank You, Social Good, Joy And Gratitude

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship, My Self Worth, Love And Appreciation

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

- Tom Brokaw

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation, Social Good, Inspirational Charity

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

- Tracy Chapman

topic: Positive, Angel, People, Singer-songwriters, Ordinary People

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

- Josef Albers

source: Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Giving, Right Answers, Inspirational Education

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Education, Teacher, Life Changing, Chalk, Teacher Appreciation

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Lying, Teaching, Teacher Student, Good Teacher

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

- Confucius

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Self Education

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation, Social Good, Inspirational Thank You

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

- Plato

topic: Teacher, Men, Determine, Inspiring Education, Inspiring Educational

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

- James Allen

topic: Thank You, Appreciation, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Military

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Jacques Barzun

source: 1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Teacher

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Education, Teacher, Atheist, Education And Teachers, Education For All

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Teacher, Literature, Students, Retirement Wishes, Teacher Appreciation

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Learning, Inspiring Educational, Progress Of Society

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Wise, Joy And Gratitude, Inspirational Thank You

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

- Eric Hoffer

source: "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

topic: Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation, Being Blessed, True Believer

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Appreciation, Volunteer, World, Inspirational Thank You, Administrative

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Learning Environment, Education System

The highest result of education is tolerance.

- Helen Keller

topic: Forgiveness, Education, Appreciation, Great Teacher, Patience And Tolerance