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Damien Thomas

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Teacher Appreciation Quotes

This collection of Teacher Quotes is in appreciation of the important role that teachers play in the lives of their students.

Teachers are those very special people who have molded our minds, opened our imagination and helped to shape our thoughts.

Teachers are the foundation of our society, helping to shape generations with their dedication, wisdom, and passion for learning.

Teachers deserve our appreciation and gratitude for the wonderful work that they do.

By showing our appreciation to teachers, we can ensure that teachers will feel more valued and supported to continue to inspire the minds of their students.

I hope that you will enjoy reading this collection of teacher appreciation quotes and that they highlight just how important and valuable these incredible people are.

 

Teacher Quotes

1. “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison

 

Teacher Quotes

 

2. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein

 

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

 

Short Teacher Quote

 

4. Teachers encourage minds to think, hands to create, and hearts to love. ― Teacher Quote

 

5. If you can read this, thank a teacher!

 

Quote about Teachers

 

6. “Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.” Aristotle

 

7. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.” Carl Jung

 

Thank you Teacher Quote

 

8. “When we strive to become better teachers than we are, everyone in our classroom becomes better too.” Robert John Meehan

 

9. “The greatest gifts we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” Maria Montessori

 

Maria Montessori Teacher Quote

 

Thank You Teacher Quotes

10. “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” John C. Maxwell

 

11. “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.” Dalai Lama

 

Education Quote By Dalai Lama

 

12. “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.” Ann Lieberman

 

13. “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” Robert M. Hutchins

 

Teacher Appreciation Sayings

 

14. “What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?” Marcus Cicero

 

15. “A well educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller

 

A Well Educated Mind Helen Keller Quote

 

16. “The teachers task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” John Warren

 

17. “You can’t really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.” Dave Cullen

 

Teaching Quote

 

18. “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

 

19. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai

 

Inspirational Teacher Quotes

 

Quotes For Teachers

20. “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” Scott Hayden

 

21. “I touch the future. I teach.” Christa McAuliffe

 

Christa McAulliffe Teacher Quote

 

22. “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

 

23. “What greater joy can a teacher feel than to witness a child’s success?” Michelle L. Graham

 

24. “All students can learn and succeed, but not in the same way and not in the same day.” William G. Spady

 

Inspiring Teachers Quote

 

25. “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein

 

26. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Lily Tomlin

 

27. “We become leaders, the day we decide to help people grow.” Simon Sinek

 

Simon Sinek Leadership Quote

 

28. Not all superheros wear capes, some have teaching degrees. Unknown

 

29. “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” Solomon Ortiz

 

Best Teacher Quotes

30. Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions. Unknown

 

Teaching Appreciation Quote

 

31. “I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.” John Wooden

 

32. A truly special teacher is very wise and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes. Unknown

 

33. “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison

 

Educator Quote

 

34. Without you, we would have been lost. Thank you teacher for guiding us, inspiring us and making us what we are today. ― Teacher Quote

 

35. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead

 

36. “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates

 

Socrates Quote About Teaching

 

37. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris

 

38. “Never stop learning. Never stop growing.” Mel Robbins

 

39. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King

 

Positive Learning Quote

 

Teacher Appreciation Quotes

40. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss

 

41. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin

 

42. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward

 

Great Teacher Quote

 

43. “The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” Jean Piaget

 

44. “A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.” Raheel Faroog

 

45. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi

 

Gandhi Inspirational quote

 

46. A teacher nourishes the soul of a child for a lifetime. ― Teacher Quote

 

47. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” Vernon Howard

 

48. “A good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way for others.” Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

 

Teacher Quotes

 

49. “Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.” Sidney J. Harris

 

Positive Teacher Quotes

50. “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” Lady Bird Johnson

 

51. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada

 

Inspirational Quote about Teaching

 

52. “Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning.” Robert John Meehan

 

53. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” Alexandra K. Trenfor

 

Teacher Quotes

 

54. “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” Josef Albers

 

55. “Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.” A. Bartlett Giamatti

 

56. “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” Anatole France

 

Inspirational Teacher Quote

 

57. Summer vacation is the time when parents realize teachers are grossly underpaid. Unknown

 

58. “Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.” Margaret Riel

 

59. It takes a big heart to shape little minds. Unknown

 

Teacher Quotes

 

Inspirational Teacher Quotes

60. “The fact that you worry about being a good teacher, means you already are one.” Jodi Picoult

 

61. “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert

 

62. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” Joyce Meyer

 

Joyce Meyer Teacher Quote

 

63. “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana

 

64. The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. Unknown

 

65. A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind and touches a heart. Unknown

 

Teacher Quotes

 

66. My teacher gave me the best gift of all… Believing in me! ― Teacher Quote

 

67. “Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.” Thomas McKinnon

 

68. “To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.” Henri Frédéric Amiel

 

Teaching Inspirational Quote

 

69. “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

 

Motivational Teacher Quotes

70. “No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

 

71. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” Bob Talbert

 

Teacher Quotes

 

72. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” Leo Buscaglia

 

73. “Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding.” William Arthur Ward

 

74. “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” Guy Kawasaki

 

Teacher Appreciation Quote

 

75. “Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” Andy Rooney

 

76. “What an educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.” Paulo Freire

 

77. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”Aristotle

 

Teacher Quotes

 

78. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

 

79. “I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.” James Levine

 

Teacher Appreciation Day Quotes

80. “Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.” Paulo Coelho

 

Great Teacher Quote

 

81. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer

 

82. “Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” Charles Kuralt

 

83. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren

 

Teacher Quotes

 

84. “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.” Darwin Martin

 

85. “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” Sidney Hook

 

86. “A teacher is one who helps others and influences lives forever.” Catherine Pulsifer

 

Catherine Pulsifer Teacher Quote

 

87. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes

 

88. What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. ― Teacher Quote

 

89. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey

 

Teacher Quotes

 

Best Teacher Appreciation Quotes

90. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

91. “Teaching is a great way to keep learning.” Matthea Harvey

 

92. “A good teacher can inspire hope; ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” Brad Henry

 

Teacher Quotes

 

93. It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

 

94. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” Fred Rogers

 

95. A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything.

 

Thank you teacher quotes

 

I really hope that you enjoyed reading this collection of great Teacher Quotes.

Let these Teacher Appreciation Quotes be as a reminder to us all of the powerful impact that teachers have on their students and their important role in shaping future generations.

The positive Teacher quotes above also highlight the importance of lifelong learning and the power that knowledge has to transform our lives.

As we reflect on the above collection of Teacher Appreciation Quotes, let us all try to value and appreciate the hard work and dedication of great teachers, who strive every day to make a difference in the lives of their students.