One of the most important professions in the world is that of being a teacher. From your kids’ early school years to the pivotal moment of graduation, their teachers remain a constant source of knowledge and support. Their role in your kids’ lives can sometimes go unnoticed, but with these heartwarming thank-you quotes, you’ll give your children the opportunity to express their gratitude to the wonderful educators who shape their world.
1. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
2. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
3. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
4. “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
5. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams
6. “Teaching is the one profession that teaches all other professions.” – Unknown
7. “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” – Unknown
8. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
9. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin
10. “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” – Anatole France
11. “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.” – Carl Jung
12. “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese proverb
13. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
14. “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
16. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
17. “Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.” – Helen Caldicott
18. “Teachers, like detectives, have a nose for truth.” – Unknown
19. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
20. “No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
21. “I touch the future. I teach.” – Christa McAuliffe
22. “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki
23. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
24. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
25. “The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.” – William Temple
26. “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne
27. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
28. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
29. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
30. “For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.” – Proverbs 8:11
31. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers
32. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
33. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great
34. “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” – John Steinbeck
35. “No written word, no oral plea can teach our youth what they should be, nor all the books on all the shelves, it’s what the teachers are themselves.” – John Wooden
36. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think” – Socrates
37. “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” – Bill Gates
38. “The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparently ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.” – K. Patricia Cross
39. “A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” – Ruth Beechick
40. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
41. “Let the children be the scripture of the instructor.” – Unknown
42. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
43. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
44. “Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” – Charles Kuralt
45. “The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.” – Elbert Hubbard
46. “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” – Unknown
47. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” – Unknown
48. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese proverb
49. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
50. “I am still learning.” – Michelangelo
51. “Teachers – the heroes of our childhood who made school exciting, challenging, and fun.” – Donna M. Zadunajsky
52. “A great teacher is one who helps a student see abilities where he saw disabilities before.” – Unknown
53. “There are three kinds of teachers: the teacher who teaches out of understanding, the teacher who teaches out of preparation, and the teacher who teaches out of apprenticeship.” – Unknown
54. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” – Plato