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
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.
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.
success succeeding-in-life job-opportunities
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
teacher children school
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
teacher high-standards students
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
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.
leadership character thinking
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
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.
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
teacher teaching students
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
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.