Marva Collins quotes

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
-- Marva Collins

#Perseverance #Determination #Moving

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
-- Marva Collins

#Suicide #Being Yourself #Self Esteem

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Teacher #Trying #Firsts

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Teaching #Long #Joy

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
-- Marva Collins

#Success

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Past #Winning #Names

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Teacher #Children #Sea

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
-- Marva Collins

#Learning #Excellence #Habit

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Children #Teaching #Learning

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
-- Marva Collins

#Children #Educational #Brilliant

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
-- Marva Collins

#Character #Thinking #Media

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
-- Marva Collins

#Teacher #People #Care

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

#Teacher #High Standards #Students

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
-- Marva Collins

#Children #Mind

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
-- Marva Collins

#Teacher #Teaching #Students

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
-- Marva Collins

#Teaching #Learning #Three

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

#Children #Mean #Errors

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
-- Marva Collins

#Waking #Moments #Certain

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

#Giving #Growth

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Education #Teacher #School

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
-- Marva Collins

#Mistake #Learning

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
-- Marva Collins

#Teacher #Students #Failing

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

#Goodbye #Children #School

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
-- Marva Collins

#Discipline #Students

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Kids #Unique #Miracle

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
-- Marva Collins

#Business #Excellence #Habit

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

#Teacher #Teaching #Easy

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

#World #Changing The World #Conformity

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

#Education #Children #Teaching

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Education #Teacher #Children

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

#Attitude #School #Essentials

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
-- Marva Collins

#Success #Leader #Succeed

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
-- Marva Collins

#Dog #Art #Cat

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.
-- Marva Collins

#Children #Teaching #Writing