Quotes on Thanking Teachers

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

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.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

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.

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

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

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.