Teacher Retirement Quotes:

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

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 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

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Numbers, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

- Maria Montessori

source: "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Student

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

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

- Gene Perret

topic: Inspirational, Retirement, Stress, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

- Anne Michaels

source: Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Heart, Lodges, Retired Teacher

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

source: "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

topic: Life, Retirement, Business, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

- Gene Perret

topic: Retirement, Home, Forever, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

- Lola J. May

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Three, Funny Retirement, Retired Teacher

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

- Abe Lemons

topic: Retirement, Days Off, Trouble, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Assessment, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Children And Education, Children Education

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

- Groucho Marx

source: "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", August 20, 1930.

topic: Retirement, Work, Age, Retired Teacher, Retirement Farewell

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Education, Teacher, Ideas, Retired Teacher, Retiring Teachers

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Husband, Men, Wife, Inspirational Retirement, Retired Teacher

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

- Gene Perret

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Nice, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

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

- Gail Godwin

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

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

- Charles Baxter

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Work, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Teaching, Funny Retirement, Retired Teacher

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Teacher, Crazy, Literature, Teacher Retirement, Art Teacher

A man can't retire his experience.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Men, Experience, Retiring, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

- Ella Harris

topic: Jobs, Husband, Wife, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

- Maria Montessori

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Student, Inspiring Education