How Can You Ever Thank a Teacher? These Inspirational Quotes Say It All
As the school year comes to a close, it's time to honor the educators who have made such a big impact on your children this year. How to thank them? Consider the gift of words with the best teacher quotes.
These short, inspirational quotes are a great way to express appreciation to teachers in cards (preferably homemade ones) from their students or to use in captions on social media. Since you sent your student off to school back in the fall (perhaps with an encouraging back-to-school quote written on a lunchbox note with your favorite pen), their teachers have carefully guided them through learning and life.
So, between that spring break trip and planning summer activities, take time to #ThankATeacher, whether it's the last day of school or during Teacher Appreciation Week, May 6-10, 2024. You can also express your gratitude to teachers "just because" whenever you are inspired to do it. They'll certainly appreciate affirmation for their hard work and care for their students any day you share it!
More Inspiration for Teachers, Education, and Parenting
Dorothea Dix
"The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character."
Darwin D. Martin
"A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded."
Jeannette Walls
"Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy—angels leading their flocks out of the darkness."
Guy Kawasaki
"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes."
Japanese Proverb
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
Aaron Bacall
"Your heart is slightly larger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher."
Joyce Meyer
"Teachers can change lives with the right mix of chalk and challenges."
Colleen Wilcox
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
John C. Maxwell
"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
E.P. Bertin
"It is not what is poured into the student, but what is planted, that counts."
Robert Frost
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
W.B. Yeats
"Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire."
Aristotle
"Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."
Terry Heick
"The best teachers are the ones that change their minds."
Scott Hayden
"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."
Albert Einstein
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
Alexandra K. Trenfor
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see."
Malala Yousafzai
"One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world."
Jill Biden
"Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole."
Jodi Picoult
"The fact that you worry about being a good teacher, means that you already are one."
Helen Keller
"A well educated mind will always have more questions than answers."
Judy Blume
"Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch."
Bob Talbert
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
Benjamin Franklin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Malcolm X
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
Anatole France
"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement."
Mark Van Doren
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
Henry B. Adams
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Carl Buechner
"They may forget what you said but they will not forget how you made them feel."
Lily Tomlin
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
C. S. Lewis
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
Christa McAuliffe
"I touch the future. I teach."
Bill Gates
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids to work together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
Pablo Picasso
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
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