Teacher Appreciation: Great Quotes for Teachers

I just learned that this week was Teacher Appreciation Week. How did I miss that? Anyway, it got me fishing for strong "educator" quotes for teachers, to attach to a card for the teachers in our lives (including my mother who retires after YEARS of teaching.)

So, here is a quick compilation of some of my favorites. May you use them well to honor those in your life that make a grand difference - our best teachers!

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry Adams

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
- C. S. Lewis

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourth's theater."
- Gail Godwin

"He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
- Anonymous

"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
- Dalai Lama

"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."
- Author Unknown

"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."
- Ever Garrison

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
- Jacques Barzun

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task."
- -Haim G. Ginott

"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

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
- Thomas Carruthers

Sources
http://www.basicquotations.com/index.php?cid=154
http://www.famous-quotes.com/topic.php?tid=1197
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/quotes-about-teachers.html
http://en.thinkexist.com/teacher_quotes
http://www.basicjokes.com/dquotes.php?cid=154