Teacher Quotes for this Teacher Appreciation Day

Teacher Quotes for this Teacher Appreciation Day 2011

Teacher Appreciation Day 2011 is perhaps gradually approaching into your country nowadays. You may be excited, you may be passive. Yet, when this day will surely come, whether you passively welcome or excitingly greet Teacher’s Day, a simple word of appreciation towards teachers is really a heart-warming thing to do for them.

You don’t need to have a favorite teacher just to give words of gratitude. These teachers, whether they are your favorite or not, might be your mother, your sister, your neighbor, or even your friend.

Share these quotes below that appreciate your teacher and I’m sure they will really be touched. Teacher appreciation poems are not the only words you can give to your teachers, you know. Quotes can also be of good thoughts to ponder.

“A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money”
- Anonymous

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.”
- Aristotle

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”
- Japanese proverb

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
- Anatole France

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”
- Anonymous

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

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

“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
- Anonymous

“The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.”
- William Arthur Ward

“Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.”
- Eugene P. Bertin

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

- Helen Caldicott

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”

- Anonymous

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

- Jacques Barzun