Thank You Poems to Teachers.
I am not a poet.
I am also not a thief and will therefore not copy and reprint other people’s work without permission.
However, I will point you toward what I consider to be quality sites with original content.
They are:
- Poemsource.com Free rhyming poetry for teachers and others.
- VoicesNet.org Searchable database of original teacher poems from the Poetry of International Poets.
- OriginalPoetry.com A collection of original poetry, updated often. Search by poem or poet.
Remember to give credit where credit is due! If you find more sources for thank you poems to teachers, let me know.
Here are a few famous quotations about teachers:
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
Chinese Proverb
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin… also said to be a Chinese proverb
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
Dr. Seuss
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”
Alexandra K.Trenfor
“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
Jim Henson
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
Aristotle
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
William Glasser
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
Lee Iacocca
