Teacher Appreciation Quotes: Thank You Teacher

These are some teacher appreciation quotes, quotations on teaching and related matters. Many of them can be useful to you when writing a letter of appreciation to your teacher. Others are just worth reading and thinking about.



This beautiful collection of teacher appreciation quotes will help you express your gratitude and say thank you to our amazing teachers for the work they do and for their help.



Teacher Appreciation Quotes

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

-Henry Adams



2. “A good teacher is like a candle: it consumes itself to light the way for others.”

-Anonymous



3. “No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.”

-Anonymous



4. “Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.”

-Aristotle



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

-Jacques Barzun



6. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

-Malcolm Forbes



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

-Benjamin Franklin



8. “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



9. “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

-President John F. Kennedy



10. “Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults.”

-President Abraham Lincoln



11. “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

-Karl Menninger



12. “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.”

-Helen Peters



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

-Plato



14. “The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”

-Plutarch



15. “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



16. “I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.”

-William Shakespeare



17. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

-Mark van Doren



18. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

-William A. Ward