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Name of Recipient Reason for the award (Retirement, years of service, with appreciation, etc.) Inspirational message or personal note. Year or date presented Name of presenter or presenting institution.

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams	By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin Proverb	If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland	To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. Henri Frederic Amiel	It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. Muriel Spark	Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France	I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun	Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant	One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. Philip Wylie
A child miseducated is a child lost. John F. Kennedy	The aim of education should be teaching us how to think, rather than what to think. James Beatti	The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren
Who dares teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana	My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. Seneca	A good teacher deserves an apple. You deserve the whole tree!
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.	A special teacher is remembered forever!	A teacher gives, a teacher shares, but most of all a teacher cares.
A teacher has a special way of making learning fun, finding joy in every day and the best in everyone.	A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.	A teacher's memories can never be erased.
A truly special teacher is very wise, she sees tomorrow in every child's eyes!	A wise teacher makes learning fun.	A wise teacher teaches by example.
ABC, 123, See what I can do because a teacher taught me! Christy Townzen	All children are gifted...some just open their package sooner than others.	All I ever needed to know I learned from my teacher.
Behind every successful child is someone who cares.	Behind every successful student is an exhausted teacher!	Blessed are the teachers, for they open minds, touch hearts and share the future.
Children do not interrupt my work, children are my work.	Discover, learn, wonder, question, explore, search, find, excite, help, encourage, teach.	Education made us what we are. Helvetius
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. Albert Einstein	Experience is the best teacher.	He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.	History Teachers are our link with the past!	Home Sweet Classroom
I touch the future. I teach.	I'm just a lucky as can be 'cause the world's greatest teacher is teaching me!	In the eyes of a child, love is spelled T-I-M-E
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden	Kindergarten teachers hold their students hands for a short while... their hearts forever.	Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Tennyson
Knowledge itself is power.	Leading a child to learning's treasures, gives a teacher untold pleasures.	Learning is a journey, not a destination.
Learning opens the world to minds ripe for the journey.	Like all great teachers, you let me learn from my own mistakes.	Love is the core of teaching.
Math Teachers make your life add up!	Music Teacher: A noteworthy profession!	Nothing improves a student’s hearing more than praise.
Only the educated are free. Epictetus	Real learning begins with one good teacher.	School days are the best!
Science Teachers have the right chemistry!	Teach from the Heart.	Teachers affect eternity. One can never tell where their influence ends.
Teacher's Aide: A welcome addition!	Teachers are angels in training.	Teachers are in a class of their own.
Teachers are special people.	Teachers change the world--one child at a time.	Teachers don't impact for a year, but for a lifetime.
Teachers have Class!	Teachers help us to learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.	Teachers like you, are precious and few.
Teachers love to hear the pitter patter of little feet... going out to recess.	Teachers make the grade!	Teachers make two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Teachers open the door...you enter by yourself.	Teachers Rule!	Teachers shape futures one child at a time.
TEACHERS TASK: To take a lot of live wires and make sure they are well-grounded!	Teachers that love to teach, create kids that love to learn.	Teachers touch the future.
Teaching... the profession that creates all others.	Teaching is a work of heart.	Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
Teaching Today Touches Tomorrow.	Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand. Native American Proverb	The art of teaching is the art of assisting in discovery.
The best teachers have the biggest hearts.	The best teachers teach from the heart, not from a book.	The door to wisdom is never shut.
The path of enlightenment requires open eyes and willing feet.	The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle	The student who does not make mistakes, stops learning!
The world need's more teachers like you.	There's no one quite like a special teacher. And no teacher quite as special as you.	Time spent teaching is never lost.
To help children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.	To learn is a blessing, To teach and do it well, It is a gift.	To teach a child is to touch the future.
To teach is to learn again.	To teach is to learn.	To teach is to touch a life forever.
What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased!	When all else fails....ask a teacher!	Without teachers, life would have no class.
World's Greatest Teacher	You can buy education...but wisdom is a gift from God.	You can't scare me - I teach school!
You can't teach every child to be a leader, but you can help children to know which leader to follow.	You're never too old to learn.