Thank You Teacher Quotes

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• 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

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

  Joseph Addison

  Appreciation, Volunteer, World

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teacher, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  Lily Tomlin

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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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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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Thank You, Appreciation, Teacher

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• 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

  Thank You, Education, Dream

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  Haim Ginott

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

  "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.

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• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• 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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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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