Quotes on Teacher Appreciation Week

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

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

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

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