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
teacher teaching easy
Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.
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.
teacher teaching students
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
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.
teacher teaching students
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
teacher teaching trying
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.
teaching long joy
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
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.
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.
discipline students i-can
Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.