The world's most amazing English teacher, and an embossed journal.....

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Can you please help me to come up with an apt but slightly obscure quote?

Your help would be most appreciated.

If only I understood what you mean!

Sorry. I'm looking for a literary quote to put on my kids' amazing English teacher's gift, an embossed journal, and falling hopelessly short of the mark. Any thoughts?

Not at all obscure, but appropriate to the subject:

"Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic."

Stick with an obvious Pen is mightier and make it personal with and MissEnglish teacher proves it or summat. Don't go for obscure.

"Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find" - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

I had this on a poster in my classroom as I thought it was apt for teaching

”Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” - Thoreau - might be appropriate if the teacher has sparked the love of reading.

Or

”One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world” - Malala Yousafzai.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

Always a good one. Louisa M Alcott.

Which book has your child been studying? I think that this is the key rather than some random literary quote. You need to reference the book that your child was inspired by.

”It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

– Albert Einstein

I agree, it needs to be a quote from a book they have worked on. What a lovely, thoughtful gift, I'm sure they will treasure it.

”Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge - Albert Einstein

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.- dr Seuss

Dinosaurs did not read. Now they are extinct. Don't be like dinosaurs. Read books.

To convey one's mood
In seventeen
Syllables is
Very diffi

Haiku John Cooper Clarke

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Henry James.

Brilliant, thank you so much, this is excellent.

She's taught my kids mostly their 11+/13+ curriculum so coming up with their own meaningful quote is less than easy.

I opened a book and in I strode
Now nobody can find me.
I’ve left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.

I’m wearing the cloak, I’ve slipped on the ring,
I’ve swallowed the magic potion.
I’ve fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.

I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.

I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.

Julia Donaldson

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” – Victor Hugo

"“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King