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
essence learning spark teaching
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
learning excellence habit
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
perseverance determination moving
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
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.
winning past names
Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
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.
education teacher children
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.
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.
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.