With Teachers’ Day around the corner, it’s that time of the year when we get busy crafting the perfect teacher’s day note, teacher’s day cards, and teacher’s day message for our favorite teachers who inspired us. It’s the time to show our love, respect, and gratitude for our teachers; to recognize their invaluable contribution to teaching, inspiring, and making us what we are today.
Here are 100 Teachers’ Day quotes to help you (your child) write the perfect thank you note for your favorite teacher this Teachers’ Day.
Teachers’ Day Quotes
- “If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother, and the teacher.” – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
- “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.” – Dalai Lama
- “Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.” – Aaron Bacall
- “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
- “Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that’s you.” – Kij Johnson
- “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
- “My dearest and nearest relative in life is my Guru; next, my mother; then my father. My first reverence is to the Guru. If my father says, “Do this”, and my Guru says, “Do not do this”, I do not do it. The Guru frees my soul. The father and mother give me this body; but the Guru gives me rebirth in the soul.” – Swami Vivekananda
8. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” – Goethe
9. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
10. “If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher.” – Stephen Hawking
11. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
12. “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” – Ever Garrison
13. “Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” – Chinese Proverb (Teachers day quotes)
14. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
15. “The father and mother give me this body; but the Guru gives me rebirth in the soul.” – Swami Vivekananda (Teachers day quotes)
16. “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.” – D. Marti
17. “Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” – Andy Rooney
18. “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki
19. “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” – Unknown
20. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
21. “The mind of the child is always on the alert, restless and eager to receive firsthand knowledge from mother nature. Children should be surrounded with the things of nature which have their own educational value. Their minds should be allowed to stumble upon and surprised at everything that happens in today’s life.” – Rabindranath Tagore
22. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” –William Butler Yeats
23. “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.” – Barack Obama
24. “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of the individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me.” – APJ Abdul Kalam
25. “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers
26. “Not all superheros wear capes, some have teaching degrees.” – Unknown
27. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
28. “The Master said, a true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive is also able to understand the present.” – Confucius
29. “The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.” – Carl Jung
31. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Khalil Gibran
32. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
33. “The main objective of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.” – Rabindranath Tagore
34. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
35. “There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fills you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” – Robert Frost
36. “The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.” – Dorothea Dix
37. “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” – Sidney Hook
38. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
39. “Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.” – Dr. Ralph Tyler (Teachers day quotes)
40. “Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers’ Day.” – Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
41. “I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.” – James Levine
42. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
43. “A teacher nourishes the soul of a child for a lifetime.” – Unknown
44. “It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” –Michael Morpurgo
45. “A truly special teacher is very wise and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.” – Unknown
46. “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.” – Ann Lieberman
47. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
48. “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
49. “I touch the future. I teach.” – Christa McAuliffe
50. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
51. “It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.” – Unknown
52. “Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding.” – William Arthur Ward
53. “A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!” – Unknown
54. “A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed.” – Justin Trudeau
55. “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
56. “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.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
57. “Students don’t know how much you know until they know how much you care.” – John C. Maxwell
58. “Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.” – Thomas Mckinnon
59. “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese Proverb
60. “One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie
61. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin
62. “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun
63. “A teacher nourishes the soul of a child for a lifetime.”- Unknown
64. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” – Socrates
65. “A good teacher can inspire hope; ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
66. “Cheers to all of the teachers who give out pencils every single day who know that they’ll never get them back.” – Unknown
67. “Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed.” – Barack Obama
68. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” – Unknown
69. “True teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.” – Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
70. “Summer vacation is the time when parents realize teachers are grossly underpaid.” – Unknown
71. “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun
72. “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” – Karl Menninger
73. “What a gift for any teacher to see the students smile and live up to their potential. That’s the reward. That’s humbling to be a witness to something like that.” – Mary Vallelonga
74. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
75. “A truly special teacher is very wise and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.” – Unknown
76. “A truly amazing teacher is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.” – Unknown
77. “I can’t believe I just saw my teacher at the grocery store! I thought she lived in her classroom!” – Heidi McDonald
78. “I have always felt that the true textbook for the pupil is his teacher.” – Mahatma Gandhi
79. “Teaching: the only profession where you steal things from home and bring them to work.” – Unknown Teachers day quotes
80. “The teacher … must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.” – Maria Montessori
81. “Good teachers are the ones who can challenge young minds without losing their own.” – Unknown
82. “To aid life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the basic task of the educator.” – Maria Montessori
83. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
84. “Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” – Charles Kuralt
85. “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.” – Maria Montessori
86. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” –Colleen Wilcox
87. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” – Fred Rogers
88. “Don’t judge a teacher until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes.” – Unknown
89. “One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been.” – Thomas Groome Teachers day quotes
90. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
91. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Khalil Gibran
92. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
93. “What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.” – Unknown
94. “A good teacher is like the rising sun that comes to fill the empty and dark minds with the light of the education.” – Anamika Mishra
95. “Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.” – Loris Malaguzzi
96. “A gifted teacher is not only prepared to meet the needs of today’s child, but is also prepared to foresee the hopes and dreams in every child’s future.” – Robert John Meehan
97. “If we are truly effective teachers, then we are creating autonomous, independent, and self-directed learners, not just successful test takers.” – Robert John Meehan Teachers day quotes
98. “A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.” – Deval Patrick
99. “The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.” – Gilbert Highet
100. “A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank. But the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child.” – Forest Witcraft
How To Write A Thank You Message For Your Teacher
To write the perfect thank you to your teacher (your child’s teacher), here are some simple steps to follow.
- Start with teachers day quotes from the list above.
- Next, write a personalized sentence to show the value that the teacher adds to your life
- End with best wishes.
Hope this post helps you create great teacher appreciation messages for your favorite teachers!
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