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40 Best Teacher Appreciation Quotes

5 May 2024/ By Zineb DJOUB

I remember those teachers who ignited the flame of curiosity and guided me towards a brighter career. Their names, faces, attitudes and teaching styles remain etched in my memory even after many years. I often wish I had more opportunities to thank them and tell them how much they inspired me. As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation this week, it’s the perfect time to recognize and honour these remarkable individuals. Teacher appreciation quotes can really show gratitude and respect for teachers in ways that words alone sometimes cannot. Here are 40 best teacher appreciation quotes that remind us of educators’ invaluable impact on our lives.

1-“Teachers are well respected because everyone remembers a favourite teacher. There is nothing more important than helping young people learn.” — Caroline Evans, Chief Executive of the Teaching Awards.

2-“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” – Aristotle.

3-“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.” – Nicholas Sparks.

4-“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” – Scott Hayden.

5-“Your heart is slightly larger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.” – Aaron Bacall.

6-“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” — William Glasser.

7-“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor.

8-“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” – Sidney Hook

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

10-“I had two favourite teachers and they both gave me a sense of purpose and really helped me through a rocky period when I was a teenager. Teachers can have an enormous impact, and I’m extremely grateful to mine.” Mariella Frostrup, Broadcaster.

11-“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki.

12-“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.” — Kate Betts.

13-“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein.

14-“Teaching is a great way to keep learning.” — Matthea Harvey.

15-“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” – John Steinbeck.

16-“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” — Solomon Ortiz.

17-“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual.” —  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

18-“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren.

19-“Teaching is so enjoyable it is almost a sin, but yet a sin that raises and educates the next generation.” —  Melanie Griffith.

20-“There can be no significant innovation in education that does not have at its centre the attitudes of the teachers. The beliefs, assumptions, feelings of teachers are the air of the learning environment; they determine the quality of life within it.” — Neil Postman, Philosoper (1913-2003) and Charles Weingartner, Educator, (1931-2003) in their book: “Teaching as a Subversive activity.”

21-“One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai.

22-“Teaching is the essential profession, the one that makes all professions possible.” — David Haselkorn.

23-“To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.” — George Bernard Shaw.

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

25-“It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” — Michael Morpurgo.

26-“If you look behind every exceptional person, there is an exceptional teacher”. Stephen Hawking.

27-“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” – Ever Garrison.

28-“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs, pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.”—Dan Rather.

29-“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.” – K. Patricia Cross.

30-“There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has.”—Pat Conroy.

31-“Teaching is the highest form of understanding.” — Aristotle.

32-“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony, or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.” — Thurgood Marshall.

33-“I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well”. — Alexander the Great.

34-“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important”. — Bill Gates.

35-“To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.― George Bernard Shaw.

36-“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.”― Helen Caldicott.

37-“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?” ― Harriet Martineau.

38-“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” — William Glasser.

39-“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.” — Lee Iacocca.

40-“Ask yourself: ‘Do I feel the need to laminate?’ Then teaching is for you.” — Gordon Korman.

This was a suggested list of teacher appreciation quotes. Choose a quote that resonates with you, write it on a card, and send it to teachers as a token of appreciation. You can also include the quote as part of a thoughtful gift or incorporate it into a handmade creation.

Always remember that a simple gesture of gratitude can brighten a teacher’s day and remind them of the profound difference they make in shaping our futures.