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
mistake learning ifs
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
teaching learning three
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
learning excellence habit
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
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.
essence learning spark teaching
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.
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.
discipline students i-can
Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
education teacher school
There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.
business excellence habit
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.