Marva Collins Quotes

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Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

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Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

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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.

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An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

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If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

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Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

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A good teacher can always make a poor student good and a good student superior.

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I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

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What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their children and do not settle for anything less.

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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.

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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.

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Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

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None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

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If you raise your fist and yell at someone today he may give you something because he feels sorry for you or is frightened of you, but what are you going to do tomorrow and the next day and ten years from now? I am convinced that the real solution is education.

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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.

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The one question that ought to be asked on a teaching application is: do you love children?

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