Thanks for Another Great Year

This year's final article summary is Great Quotes About Teaching.

Whenever I get to the end of a school year, I feel like I’m near the finish line of a marathon—physically and emotionally spent, operating solely on muscle memory. The first day of summer is coming yet the final days of school go by slowly. I long for that first idle day of summer free of any schoolwork.

Typically for me, I decompress over Memorial Day weekend but then find myself the next week ever so slightly beginning to reflect on the past school year and even starting to form plans for the next one. How quickly I forget that I craved free time just a few days before. Such is the life of a teacher—assessment and planning are in our DNA.

Similarly, we keep striving to perfect our craft even through the inevitable surprises, bumps, and mishaps of every school year. There are always ups and downs, yet teaching is the career I’m so gratified to have chosen! It’s both fatiguing and fulfilling.

As we head into summer, below are some notable quotes that illustrate how impactful our efforts are. 

At this time of year, we all need rejuvenation. Still, in a moment of relaxation and reflection this summer, remind yourself how much you mean to your students and colleagues!

Enjoy the summer!

Inspirational Teacher Quotes

• Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best (Bob Talbert)
• Teaching is the greatest act of optimism (Colleen Wilcox)
• Nine-tenths of education is encouragement (Anatole France)
• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery (Mark Van Doren)
• Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together (Scott Hayden)
• To teach is to learn twice over (Joseph Joubert)
• Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today (Malcom X)
• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework (Lily Tomlin)
• Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system (Sidney Hook)
• It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom (Michael Morpurgo)
• I touch the future. I teach (Christa McAuliffe)
• The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character (Dorothea Dix)
• Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding (William Arthur Ward)
• The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike (H. L. Mencken)
• 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’ (Dan Rather)
• Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students (Solomon Ortiz)
• Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them (Lady Bird Johnson)
• A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning (Brad Henry)
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge (Albert Einstein)
• To this end, the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher (John Strachan)
• Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges (Joyce Meyer)
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops (Henry B. Adams)
• A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
• If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes (Guy Kawasaki)