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Teacher Quotes About Gratitude

"The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires."
William A. Ward

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

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.
Author Unknown

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.
Donald D. Quinn

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

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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

It should be recognised that the proper status of teachers and due public regard for the profession of teaching are of major importance.
UNESCO (Art. 5 of 1996 Recommendation)

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

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

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
Author Unknown

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
Abraham Lincoln

Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.
William Prince

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim Ginott

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese proverb

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

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Anonymous

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
Anonymous

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

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown

The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.
C.B. Neblette

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."
Dan Rather

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

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer

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

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.
Khalil Gibran

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Alcott

There are three good reasons to be a teacher ... June, July, and August.
Author Unknown

To teach is to learn twice
Joseph Joubert

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick

We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude.
Anonymous

Without teacher appreciation there can't be any student progress.
Theresa Grimm

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
The Talmud

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, 'Not to unlearn what you have learned!
Diogenes Laertius

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