Teacher Appreciation Week Quotes:

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

- Charles Kuralt

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

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Heart, Cutting, Tasks, Modern Education, Lecturer

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

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

- John Henrik Clarke

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

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Dream, Mean, Learning, Inspirational Education, Public Education

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

- Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

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

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

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

- Voltaire

topic: Appreciation, Morning, Light, Life Appreciation, Morning Light

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

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

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 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

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

- Karl A. Menninger

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Retirement, Inspirational 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

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

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

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

- Gail Godwin

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

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

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