Best teacher appreciation quotes and inspirational messages




“It must have been a great task convincing yourself to show up to teach again and again. Thank you for not giving in or giving up. Thank you for giving yourself.” 

“If all the world could have your dedication, there would be more progress and more interest in education. Thank you for showing resilience in it all.” 

“Thank you for the energy you put into work that found its way into our brains somehow, some way. It was sometimes easy but when it was hard, you rarely allowed it show.” 

“And we know how you never really had free weekends as you were either reviewing our progress or planning how to improve it or both. Thank you for sacrificing.” 

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

“Not all superheroes have capes, some have Teaching Degrees.” Author Unknown

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

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)

"Anyone Who Does Anything to Help a Child" Word Art Freebie

“Anyone Who Does Anything to Help a Child” Word Art Freebie

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


“A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” Author Unknown

“To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert

“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

“What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.” Author Unknown

“Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.” Ann Lieberman

“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

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Lily Tomlin (“Edith Ann”)



“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. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” John Steinbeck

“A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.” Author Unknown

"A Truly Special Teacher" Word Art Freebie

“A Truly Special Teacher” Word Art Freebie

“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” 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

“It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.” Author Unknown

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” Bob Talbert

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” Benjamin Franklin

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato

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

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“The Art of Teaching” Word Art Freebie

“I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” Chinese Proverb

Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.”Chinese proverb

“To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.” Maria Montessori

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” Josef Albers

“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes 

“If teaching is to be effective with young children, it must assist them to advance on the way to independence. It must initiate them into those kinds of activities which they can perform themselves and which keep them from being a burden to others because of their inabilities. We must help them to learn how to walk without assistance, to run, to go up and down the stairs, to pick up fallen objects, to dress and undress, to wash themselves, to express their needs in a way that is clearly understood, and to attempt to satisfy their desires through their own efforts. All this is part of an education for independence.” Maria Montessori

“On the Way to Independence” Montessori Word Art Freebie

“On the Way to Independence” Word Art Freebie

“A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams.”Author unknown

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats

“A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers

“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

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