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:

1. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
2. “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual.” – APJ Abdul Kalam
3. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
4. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
5. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
6. “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
7. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
8. “The influence of a good teacher can never be erased.” – Unknown
9. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
10. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
11. “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.” – D. Martin
12. “One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie
13. “The best teachers are those who pass on their zeal and enthusiasm as a legacy to their students.” – Robert John Meehan
14. “A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” – Ruth Beechick
15. “Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.” – Unknown
16. “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
17. “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.
18. “Teachers are the heart of the educational system.” – Sidney Hook
19. “Teaching is not a profession; it’s a passion.” – Unknown
20. “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.” – Louis A. Berman
21. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
22. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle
23. “Teachers are the guardians of the future.” – Unknown
24. “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
25. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
26. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
27. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost
28. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
29. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
30. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
31. “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” – Unknown
32. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
33. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
34. “A good teacher is like a good wine – it gets better with age.” – Unknown
35. “The best teachers are those who inspire you to think for yourself.” – Unknown
36. “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
37. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
38. “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” – Ever Garrison
39. “In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.” – Phil Collins
40. “We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.” – Ben Sweetland
41. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
42. “Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.” – William Allin
43. “The greatest gift you can give a child is a good education.” – Unknown
44. “The best teachers are those who can make the complicated simple.” – Unknown
45. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
46. “The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” – John Warren
47. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
48. “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan Welton Fitzwater
49. “A teacher is not a dispenser of information, but a mentor who inspires and guides students to discover their own path.” – Unknown
50. “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” – Horace Mann
51. “Education is not filling a pail but lighting a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
52. “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Godwin
53. “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
54. “Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
55. “A teacher is a person who never says anything once.” – Howard Nemerov
56. “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
57. “The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” – John Warren
58. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
59. “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
60. “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
61. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
62. “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun
63. “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
64. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
65. “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” – Ever Garrison
66. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
67. “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
68. “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to learn even when they think they can’t.” – Unknown
69. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
70. “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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