Teachers can have a major impact on children’s lives and we all know that!
At the same time, burn out in teaching sector is real nowadays.
Any inspirational and motivational quotes or appreciation phrases to a teacher can make a difference!
Either it is appreciation day, the end of the year or a teacher’s birthday, share any positive thoughts you have!
This post is all about quotes for best teacher and teaching quotes!
Teacher appreciation phrases
- “To the world you may be just a teacher, but to your students you are a hero!” – Unknown
- “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” – Alexander the Great
- “Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.” – Horace Mann
- “It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.” – Unknown
- “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
- “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” – Unknown
- “Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.” — Arne Duncan
- “When you study great teachers…you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” — William Glasser
- “They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.” — Nicholas Sparks.
- “Teaching is the essential profession, the one that makes all professions possible.” ― David Haselkorn
Motivational and inspirational quotes for best teacher
The importance of a teacher’s job
- “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years”. – Jacques Barzun
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings”. – Carl Ju
- “I think the teaching profession contributes more to our society than any other single profession”. – John Wooden
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. – Nelson Mandela
- “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life”. – Plato
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires”. – William Arthur Ward
- “The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth”. – Dan Rather
- “A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams”. – Unknown
- “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon”. – Ann Lieberman
- “If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.” ― Barbara Colorose
The art of teaching
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery”. – Mark Van Doren
- “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary”. – Thomas Carruthers
- “A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson”. – John Henrik Clarke
- “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all”. – Aristotle
- “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge”. – Albert Einstein
- “The best teachers are those most interested in the process, not the outcome”. – Robert John Meehan
- “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself”. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- “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
- “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn”. – John Cotton Dana
- “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each”. – Plato
- “Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth”. – Helen Caldicott
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations”. – Patricia Neal
- “Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine”. – Yawar Baig
- “Teaching is the highest form of understanding”. – Aristotle
Advice for new teachers
- “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own”. – Nikos Kazantzakis
- “It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it”. – Maria Montessori
- “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence”. – Amos Bronson Alcott
- “A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do”. – Christopher Pike
- “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework”. – Lily Tomlin
- “The teacher must be an actor, an artist, passionately in love with his work”. – Anton Chekhov
- “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches”. – Karl Menninger
- “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best”. – Bob Talbert
- “The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer”. – Alice Wellington Rollins
- “Teaching is not a job. It’s a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life”. – Jill Biden
Teachers as life-long learners
- “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students”. – Solomon Ortiz
- “Teaching is the royal road to learning”. – Jessamyn West
- “Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is”. – William Glasser
- “By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn”. – Latin Proverb
- “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world”. – Malala Yousafzai
- “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well”. – Aristotle
- “A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives”. – Deval Patrick
- “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together”. – Scott Hayden
Funny quotes for best teacher
- “Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task”. – Haim Ginott
- “The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.” – Ally Carter
- “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more”. – Bob Talbert
- “Being a teacher is a lot like being a rock star.” – Heidi McDonald
- “Being a new teacher is like trying to fly an airplane while building it.” – Rick Smith
- “A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.” – Martin H. Fischer
- “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” – Harry S. Truman
- “School holiday: The time of the year when parents realize just how grossly underpaid teachers actually are.”– Unknown
- “Good teachers are the ones who can challenge young minds without losing their own.” – Unknown
- “Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” – George Burns
- “To survive as a teacher you need 3 bones: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Unknown
- “Teachers are the only professionals who have to respond to bells every forty-five minutes and come out fighting.” – Frank McCourt
- “A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor and makes far less money.” – Unknown
- “I am a teacher – I steal things from home and bring them to work.” – Unknown
- “I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn’t want it, but is forced by law to buy it.” – Dan Meyer
- “Teaching is a walk in the park. If that park is Jurassic park.” – Unknown
Meaningful quotes for best teacher
- “Blaming teachers for the problems in education is like blaming doctors for people being sick.” – Unknown
- “No school teacher has ever had a former student return to say a standardized test has changed his or her life.” – Joe Martin
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others”. – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”. – Henry Adams
- “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges”. – Joyce Meyer
- “The best teachers are the ones that change their minds”.– Terry Heick
- “The best teacher teaches from the heart, not from the book”. – Unknown
- “The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day.” – Todd Whitaker
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This post was all about quotes for best teacher and teaching quotes!
As Solomon Ortiz claimed “Education is the key to success in life,
and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
Let’s share with them our appreciation, admiration, motivation, inspiration and something funny!
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