Marva Collins
Marva Collins
Marva Delores Collinswas an American educator who started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago in 1975...
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth31 August 1936
CityMonroeville, AL
education children teaching
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
children teaching writing
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.
goodbye children school
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
children mind
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
children educational school-education
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
children mean errors
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
teacher children sea
I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
teacher children school
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
education teacher children
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.
children teaching learning
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
teacher teaching easy
Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.
success leader succeed
Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
dream good-dream brake
Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.
kids unique miracle
Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me.' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.