Thank You Teacher Quotes:

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

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

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

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

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

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

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching, Great Father, Indebted

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

- Karl A. Menninger

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

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

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 task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

- K. Patricia Cross

topic: Teacher, People, Effort, Maximum Effort, Parents And Teachers

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 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

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

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

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

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

- Gail Godwin

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

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

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

- Confucius

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

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

- Plato

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

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher, Math Education, Spring Awakening

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

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

- Philip Wylie

topic: Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens, Delinquents, Great Teacher

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

- John F. Kennedy

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

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

- Plutarch

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Good Teacher, Good Education

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Wisdom, Teacher, Memories, Teacher Student, Good Teacher

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

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

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

- Donna Fargo

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Made, Answering The Call, Thank You Teacher