Bidding farewell to those who have had an impact on our lives is never easy! After devoting their entire lives to uplifting, educating, and supporting our youth- saying goodbye to retiring teachers is just the same. We’ve rounded up 65 heart-warming quotes to commemorate the retirement of teachers and help you bid so long to your favorite educators!
1. “The influence of a great teacher can never be erased.”
2. “Retirement is not the end of the road, but a turn to a new chapter in life.”
3. “A teacher plants seeds of knowledge that grow forever.”
4. “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.”
5. “Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together, make this world a beautiful garden.”
6. “The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.”
7. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
8. “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
9. “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
10. “A great teacher is a great artist; his medium is not canvas, but the human mind.”
11. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
12. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
13. “A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.”
14. “To teach is to touch a life forever.”
15. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
16. “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.”
17. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
18. “Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.”
19. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.”
20. “It takes a big heart to shape little minds.”
21. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.”
22. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
23. “Teachers are the only professionals who touch eternity; you never know where their influence stops.”
24. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
25. “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.'”
26. “Not all superheroes have capes, some have teaching degrees.”
27. “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
28. “Retirement: No job, no stress, no pay!”
29. “Don’t plan to retire from something; plan to retire to something.”
30. “Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.”
31. “Life begins at retirement.”
32. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
33. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
34. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
35. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
36. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
37. “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.”
38. “In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
39. “The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.”
40. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
41. “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”
42. “Teaching is the highest form of understanding.”
43. “Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.”
44. “Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, ‘Hi, Honey, I’m home – forever.'”
45. “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
46. “A teacher in wisdom and kindness helps children learn to do and become their best.”
47. “Your life as a teacher begins the day you realize that you are always a learner.”
48. “Teachers inspire dreams, shape lives, and give us hope for the future.”
49. “Retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living.”
50. “To retire is to begin to die.”
51. “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
52. “A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.”
53. “A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.”
54. “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”
55. “The teacher is one who made two ideas grow where only one grew before.”
56. “In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.”
57. “Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”
58. “Retirement is a time to make the inner journey and come face to face with your flaws, failures, prejudices, and all the factors that generate thoughts of unhappiness.”
59. “The future of the world is in your classroom today.”
60. “Teachers make the future possible.”
61. “Retirement is an opportunity to explore the highest echelons of time, leisure, and discovery.”
62. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
63. “The best teachers show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”
64. “If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
65. “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
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