Quotes to thank a teacher
Teachers receive a lot of mugs with misattributed quotes on them. These lines are checked against their real sources, so the one you choose will be accurate as well as kind.
A teacher's influence passes from student to student and generation to generation, so no one can say where it ends.
Read the full explanation →Said by Mandela at the launch of an educational broadcasting project. For a man whose people had been denied decent schooling under apartheid, education was a form of liberation.
Read the full explanation →Cicero says that being grateful is the most important virtue and the source of the others, because people who remember what they owe are loyal, dutiful and kind.
Read the full explanation →Newton credits earlier scientists for making his discoveries possible. He borrowed the image of dwarfs on giants' shoulders from medieval scholars.
Read the full explanation →The best part of a good person's life is not their big achievements but the small, everyday kindnesses that nobody records and they themselves forget.
Read the full explanation →Education should not just pour facts into students but light their own desire to think and to find the truth.
Read the full explanation →The habits and values children learn early stay with them for life, so guide them well while they are young.
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How to use a quote to thank a teacher
In a card, follow the quote with one specific thing the teacher did: a lesson you remember, encouragement at the right moment, the way they explained something. Teachers keep those cards.
For a child's card, a short quote written by a parent plus a drawing or a line from the child works beautifully.
At a retirement, a quote about influence lasting, such as Henry Adams's "a teacher affects eternity," gives you a natural way to invite former students to stand or share a memory.