A Thank You Note

I thought I might put the note I gave to one of my teachers (below): I was pretty embarrased about it, but teachers aren't appreciated nearly enough.


Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire

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

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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward

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

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. ~Author Unknown

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. ~Anatole France

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. ~Dean Schlicter

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ~Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward

I appreciate you. ~Mercedes