Teacher Appreciation Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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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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• 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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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

  Helen Caldicott

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Thank You, Wise

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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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