Marva Collins quotes
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“Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.”
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“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.”
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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.”
-- Marva CollinsSource : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
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“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”
-- Marva CollinsSource : Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher
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“Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.”
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“You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.”
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“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 CollinsSource : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
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“Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.”
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“The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
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“I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.”
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“An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.”
-- Marva CollinsSource : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
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“There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment”
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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.”
-- Marva CollinsSource : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
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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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“If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.”
-- Marva CollinsSource : Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.170, Hampton Roads Publishing
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“When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”
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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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“Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.”
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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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“Excellence is not an act, but a habit.”
-- Marva CollinsSource : Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.114, Hampton Roads Publishing
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“Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.”
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“I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.”
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“Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.”
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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.”
-- Marva CollinsSource : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
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“Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.”
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“The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.”
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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.”
-- Marva Collins
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