Looking for some heart touching quotes for teachers? Then you’re in the right place.
Let’s face it. Teachers play a really important role in our lives. It’s no accident that so many successful people attribute a teacher’s influence to their success.
If you’re a teacher, then you can (quite rightly) feel a little smug reading this. Your efforts are appreciated – you rock! And if you’re looking for a quote to send a teacher to say thanks, then we hope you find one that makes their day.
1. “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki
2. “Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher” – Aaron Bacall
3. “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. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” – John Steinbeck
4. “Ideal 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 bridges of their own.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
5. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” – Fred Rogers
6. “I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son.” – Thomas Wolfe
7. “What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
8. “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
9. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
10. “To this end, the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.” – John Strachan
11. “When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” – The Talmud
12. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
13. “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
14. “Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle
15. “Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
16. “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
17. “It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” – Michael Morpurgo
18. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin