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
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Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.
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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.
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When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
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You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
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The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
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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.
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What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
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Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
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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.
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Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
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Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
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Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.
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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.
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Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.