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
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.
goodbye children school
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
success leader succeed
Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
teacher teaching easy
Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.