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
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.
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.
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.
dog art cat
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
goodbye children school
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
teacher teaching students
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
children mind
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
attitude school essentials
Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.