Marva Collins Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

  Marva Collins

  Happiness, Success, Suicide

• You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, People

• 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

• 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

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

• Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Children, School

• The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

• 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

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

• When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

• 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

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, Easy

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

• 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

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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