60 Teacher Appreciation Quotes to Say Thank You (2024)

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With students of all ages heading back to school, it’s the perfect time to celebrate the teachers, mentors, and professors in our lives.

No matter what school or age you are, from school age to work in the workplace, there are teachers and mentors all around you.

Perhaps you’re a recent college graduate, preparing to enter the workforce?

Maybe you’re your own boss with a mentor that encourages and guides you?

When was the last time you said thank you for the knowledge, or thank you for making me who I am today?

Those who teach, instruct, guide, motivate, and share their knowledge with us deserve thanks and appreciation. Just like the wishes we send on Monther’s Day or Father’s Day, teachers are important guiding forces in our lives.

Teachers change lives every day, so take a moment to say thank you! Just a quick message on Facebook or even sending a card to your old school. Or make their Teacher’s Appreciation Day even better by showing up in person with more than an apple.

You might be wondering, when is Teacher’s Appreciation Day? World Teacher’s Day is October 5th, so start planning your special thank you for your favorite teacher.

And that’s likely not your only opportunity to thank your teacher, in the USA, Teacher’s Appreciation Week is celebrated during the first full week of May, with that Tuesday being National Teacher’s Day. Here’s a list of Teachers’ days around the world by country.

To help you craft the perfect thank you gift for your teachers, here are 60 heart touching Teacher Appreciation Quotes.

Thank You for the Knowledge Quotes

What was the most important lesson you ever learned? What knowledge and education have shaped you to be who you are? This first collection of teacher appreciation quotes commemorates all the wisdom they bestowed on us. It’s now just that they taught us knowledge, they taught us to think, to be inquisitive, and to use our minds.

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” — Lily Tomlin

2. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” — Bob Talbert

3. “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” — Josef Albers

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4. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

6. “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

7. “The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.” — Dorothea Dix

Words of Appreciation for All Teachers Do

What have your teachers done for you over all the years of education? From age four until our twenties for some of us, our days were driven by teachers, instructors, and professors. Our full-time job was to just learn! The following Teacher Appreciation quotes celebrate all that teachers do for their students and their unique teaching styles.

8. “To teach is to learn twice.” — Joseph Joubert

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” — John C. Dana

10. “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” — Scott Hayden

“A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.” — D. Martin

12. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” — Alexandra K. Trenfor

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13. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

14. “I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” — Chinese Proverb

“To this end, the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.” — John Strachan

16. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren

17. “Where your talents and the needs of your students meet there lies your calling as a teacher.” — Robert John Meehan

Tribute to Teachers Importance and Influence Quotes

How did your favorite teacher change your life? Or even still, how did all the teachers you don’t even remember, impact and influence you? The following heart touching Teacher Appreciation quotes illustrate the depth and grandness of a teacher’s true legacy. Teachers don’t just teach, they inspire, they awaken and they ignite. And in some cases, teachers save lives!

18. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

20. “When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” — The Talmud

21. “I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son.” — Thomas Wolfe

22. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” — Fred Rogers

“Not all superheroes have capes, some have Teaching Degrees.” — Unknown

24. “It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” — Michael Morpurgo

25. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” — Unknown

26. “Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.” — Thomas Mckinnon

“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” — Joyce Meyer

28. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

29. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” — Robert Frost

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Heart Touching Quotes for a Great Teacher

What makes a teacher great? Why do you remember your favorite teacher? You are so lucky to have a great teacher – even just one overall your years in school can change your life. This collection of Teacher Appreciate Quotes shares illustrate the characteristics of a truly great teacher. Share your thanks and experience the benefits of gratitude.

30. “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.” — Ann Lieberman

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward

32. “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

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33. “A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.” — Unknown

34. “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” — Japanese Proverb

Thank You for Being a Good Teacher Quotes

Think of your favorite teacher, what was it about them that makes them great? The following heart touching teacher appreciate quotes share just how special and wonderful teachers can be. They remind us just how much we need to thank and remember our teachers.

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” — Brad Henry Love

36. “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

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37. “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.” — Louis Berman

38. “A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” — Thomas Carruthers

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” — Gail Godwin

40. “A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” — John Henrik Clarke

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The Best Teacher Appreciation Quotes from Parents

How do you say thank you to a teacher from a parent? What do you write to a teacher to say thank you? Teachers are there for us when parents can’t be. They care for us, show us compassion, encouragement and so much more. These heart touching teacher appreciation quotes are perfect messages of thanks from parents.

“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” — Charles Kuralt

42. “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” — Anatole France

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43. “Because my teacher believed in me, I never gave up. Now I am flying towards my dreams.” — Heidi McDonald

“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.” — Patricia Cross

45. “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson

Thank You to All the Great Teacher Messages

What do you remember most about being a student? Do you remember all the math and history lessons, or the teachers you loved? This selection of heart touching teacher appreciation quotes illustrates how much teachers mean to students. We remember our teachers, not the lessons, the classroom, or the schoolyard drama – the teachers!

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” — Sidney Hook

47. “They may forget what you said but they will not forget how you made them feel.” — Carl Buechner

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48. “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” — John C. Maxwell

“Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.” — Aaron Bacall

50. “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

Teacher Appreciation Day is Important Quotes

Think of your favorite teacher, what was it about them that makes them great? The following heart touching teacher appreciate quotes share just how special and wonderful teachers can be. They remind us just how much we need to thank and remember our teachers.

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” — Eric Hoffer

52. “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” — Jacques Barzun

53. “If students don’t feel teacher appreciation, their whole education has failed.” — Michael Balkers

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54. “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” — Guy Kawasaki

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” — Alexander the Great

56. “I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.” — John Wooden

57. “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” — Helen Peters

58. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.” — Carl Jung

“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” — William Prince

60. “A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.” — Aristotle

Printable Thank You Card Quotes

Looking for printable thank you card quotes for teachers? A printable quote is a perfect way to share your gratitude! Use them to create a handmade card or frame for a heart-touching gift they’ll remember.

This download comes with 10 high-resolution black & white quotes ready to be printed.

This post is close to my heart because of all the frustrating headlines I see about cuts to education and the firing of teachers.

None of us would be here without the teachers, mentors, and guides that so graciously poured all they knew into us.

It breaks my heart that governments and policymakers seem to have forgotten just how important teachers are.

Don’t just tell a teacher you appreciate them, tell your local representatives to support teachers.

Who would I be without teachers who were on my side, in and in my corner my whole life? I am literally tearing up about this.

Who would you be? They work tirelessly for the good of all society.

Happy Teacher’s Appreciation Day!

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Last Updated on November 30, 2021