Teacher Appreciation Quotes And Sayings

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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
– Henry Adams

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
– Jacques Barzun

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
– Jacques Barzun

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
– James A. Garfield

“Delightful task! To rear the tender thought / To teach the young idea how to shoot.”
– James Thomson

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”
– Japanese Proverb

“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 on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
– John C. Dana

“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
– John E. Southard

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Modern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
– John F. Kennedy

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist, and that there are as few as there are other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
– John Steinbeck

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

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

“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.”
– Laurence Houseman

“Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.”
– Leon Lessinger

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

“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.”
– Louis Berman

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

“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
– Mark van Doren

“The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
– Marva Collins

“May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.”
– Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

“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

“If students don’t feel teacher appreciation, their whole education has failed.”
– Michael Balkers

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

“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.”
– Patricia Cross

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.”
– Patricia Neal

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