Teacher Appreciation Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  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.

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

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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• What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

  Harriet Martineau

  Teacher, Teaching, Responsibility

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Teacher, Teaching

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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

  John Henrik Clarke

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• 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

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Thank You, Teacher

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

  Cato the Younger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Sweet

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Thanks are the highest form of thought.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• 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

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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

  Plutarch

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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

  Alexander the Great

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Appreciation

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• What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Memorial Day, Teacher, Children

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