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
leadership character thinking
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
children mean errors
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
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.
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 people care
You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
children mind
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
world conformity motivational-leadership
I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.
mistake learning ifs
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
waking moments certain
There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
attitude school essentials
Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.
teacher teaching students
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
dog art cat
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
education children teaching
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
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.