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Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
Sep 29, 2025
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Work hard at work worth doing.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
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.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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'.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.