15 Best Teacher Appreciation Quotes
Teachers deserve our gratitude and respect. They face countless challenges every day. Teachers, whether they’re yours, your kids’, or a friend or family member who is a teacher, would love a beautiful, hand-written card expressing your appreciation anytime. Here are some examples of the best teacher appreciation quotes.
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- “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” – Sidney Hook
- “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese Proverb
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.”- Carl Jung
- “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”- John C. Maxwell
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- “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 best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day.”— Todd Whitaker
- “Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.” – Aaron Bacall
- “Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” -Andy Rooney
- “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” – John Steinbeck
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Short Teacher Appreciation Quotes
- “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki
- “Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.”— Arne Duncan
- I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well. —Alexander the Great
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra Trenfor
- “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” – Karl Menninger
