Teacher Appreciation Week Quotes 2021
As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week 2021, it’s important to honor the hard work and dedication of our educators. Here are the top 99 quotes to inspire and thank our teachers:
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual.” – APJ Abdul Kalam
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
- “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
- “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
- “The influence of a good teacher can never be erased.” – Unknown
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
- “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.” – D. Martin
- “One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie
- “The best teachers are those who pass on their zeal and enthusiasm as a legacy to their students.” – Robert John Meehan
- “A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” – Ruth Beechick
- “Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.” – Unknown
- “The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.'” – Maria Montessori
- “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.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Teachers are the heart of the educational system.” – Sidney Hook
- “Teaching is not a profession; it’s a passion.” – Unknown
- “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.” – Louis A. Berman
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
- “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle
- “Teachers are the guardians of the future.” – Unknown
- “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.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
- “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” – Unknown
- “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
- “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
- “A good teacher is like a good wine – it gets better with age.” – Unknown
- “The best teachers are those who inspire you to think for yourself.” – Unknown
- “The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” – Ever Garrison
- “In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.” – Phil Collins
- “We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.” – Ben Sweetland
- “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.” – William Allin
- “The greatest gift you can give a child is a good education.” – Unknown
- “The best teachers are those who can make the complicated simple.” – Unknown
- “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
- “The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” – John Warren
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan Welton Fitzwater
- “A teacher is not a dispenser of information, but a mentor who inspires and guides students to discover their own path.” – Unknown
- “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” – Horace Mann
- “Education is not filling a pail but lighting a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
- “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Godwin
- “A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.” – Christopher Reeve
- “Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
- “A teacher is a person who never says anything once.” – Howard Nemerov
- “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
- “The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” – John Warren
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “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.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun
- “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” – Ever Garrison
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “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.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.” – Elbert Hubbard
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