40 Posts Appreciating Wholesome Teachers

As kids, we encountered influential adults who helped shape our lives. For some of us, this was a parent. While for others, it was an aunt or uncle. While yet others found their mentor in a teacher. While we imagine teaching can be as soul-sucking a job as any, some have held strong in maintaining their positive impact on youthful minds.  Our team recently searched online for posts that show their appreciation of encounters with such individuals. Scroll below to read a collection of these incidents when teachers upheld the honour of their esteemed positions and imparted a great deal more to their students than just mere knowledge.

#1 Be Kind. Be Compassionate. Be Human

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#2 Teacher Going Above And Beyond For Their Students

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#3 Teachers Are So Much More Than Just Educators

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#4 That's Beautiful

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#5 Coolest Teacher Ever

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#6 Teachers Like That Make Such A Difference

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#7 Some Teachers Are Just Really Genuinely Amazing People

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#8 We Need More Teachers Like This

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#9 Yesterday The Quietest Kid In My Last Class Spoke To Me For The First Time. He Asked If He Could Doodle On My Board, And Since We Were Just Waiting Around For Buses I Said, "Sure"

Image source: Squidney Elizabeth He draws an insanely realistic face, and when I tell him how awesome it is, he says he likes to draw. He also likes comics so we talk about the Green Lantern Corps because his favorite artist does the comics until his bus is called. Today, he immediately went to the board when the bell rang and started drawing. His bus was called in less than ten minutes yet he was able to do this. I'm going to take pictures of all his doodles this year and give them to him in a book at the end. I hope it reminds him to keep doing what he loves.

#10 Our Ex-Marine Teacher Has A Student Draw A "Cat Of The Day" On The Board Because He Likes To. He Was Absent On Friday And Wasn't Able To Do So. So this morning, he took out his phone, opened Neko Atsume, and drew a "substitute cat". I love this teacher.

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#11 Treat Everyone With Respect And Care

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#12 Retired Teacher Drives Portable Library To Encourage Reading! What A Way To Spend Retirement

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#13 My Favorite High School English Teacher Posted This Today. We Need More People Like Him In The World

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#14 I Made 35 Desks For Students In My Area Who Are Home Due To Distance Learning

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#15 My Mom Is The Cutest Art Teacher Ever! She Made A Dress And Had Everyone Of Her Students Draw One Thing On The Dress For Her To Wear. This Was Her At Her Student's Art Show Tonight

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#16 My Teacher Rescues Animals, And Two Baby Deer Were Brought In Within A Week Of Each Other. Now They Are Best Friends

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#17 My Socio-Horticulture Professor Gives Every Student A Plant Almost Every Week

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#18 Hannah's Class Has A Zoom Session Each Evening. Last Night She Got Really Sad And Kind Of Shut Down. Today Her Teacher Came Over And Hung Out For A Bit

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#19 My Daughter's Teacher Is Undergoing Chemo. This Was Their First Art Class This Year

Image source: Karmafacilitator I'm so appreciative of how hard this woman works to teach her students about more than just academics. She is a strong and beautiful person (whose permission I requested before posting).

#20 The Highlight Of My Day Was My Teacher Bringing His Cat To School. Everytime He Asked The Class A Question, His Cat Would Meow, And He Would Accept It As An Answer

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#21 This Elementary Teacher Rakes Leaves In The Schoolyard Into Adorable Cartoon Characters Every Morning

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#22 Art Teacher Here. I Had My 7 And 8-Year-Old Students Create Monsters That Were Then "Adopted" By Local College Artists And Professors To Be Reimagined

Image source: snzb The goal was to show my students that if they continue to grow their skill set and stay in the arts, then their ideas have no limit.

#23 I Was Orphaned Early This Year. My Teacher Is Starting The Adoption Process. Here's An Ornament She Got For Our New Family. I Thought It Was Wholesome

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#24 It’s So Wholesome

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#25 A Girl In My Geography Class Had To Bring Her Newborn To Class Today. The Baby Started Crying In The Middle Of Our Quiz

When she took him out to hold him, my professor insisted that he wouldn't mind feeding the baby and rocking his car seat until she was done. This is my so awesome, sweet professor, on his knees.

#26 Teacher's Homework Policy

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#27 Always Have Compassion

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#28 That’s Amazing

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#29 A Kid At My Daughter’s School Couldn't Find Their Lost Tooth, And I Imagine They Were Very Sad That The Tooth Fairy Wouldn’t Come. So The Teacher Wrote An Official Letter To Excuse Them

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#30 A Girl In My AP Literature Class Brought Her Cat In. The Teacher Invited Everyone Else To Bring In Pets Any Time They Please

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#31 Sharing A Proud Teacher Moment. I Just Finished Putting Together This Collaborative Grid Drawing By My 8th-Grade Students. I'm So Impressed

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#32 We Found Five Abandoned Kittens Running Around The School Grounds, And My Teacher Caught One. This Is How The Class Is Being Taught

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#33 Best School Picture Ever

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#34 Teachers Really Make A Difference

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#35 This Teacher Draws A Different Picture Each Morning For His Students

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#36 Teachers Are Amazing

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#37 My Son, Who Has Learning Challenges, Developed A Special Relationship With His Amazing Fourth-Grade Teacher

Image source: researchbuff On the last day of school, she gifted him with a drawing from her father who she said worked as an animator. He did this especially for my son, who is a Batman fanatic. Left me speechless.

#38 My Son Has Struggled With Autism, Tourettes, Agoraphobia, Severe Anxiety, And OCD. He Found Solace In Writing, And Just Published His Book On Amazon. Here he is giving a copy to one of his teachers who helped him along the way.

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#39 My Father Has Been A Professor Of English At The University Of St. Thomas For Over 50 Years. Here He Is, At 91 Years Old, Embracing Virtual Teaching Like A Boss

Image source: Julia Krohn Mechling Listening to and watching him teach "The Odyssey" by Homer is a true gift. He’s been teaching it for decades, and yet he has the passion and excitement for the text as if it's the first time. These kids have no idea how lucky they are.

#40 Professor Still Teaches While Holding His Kid

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