Marva Collins Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

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

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

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, People

• 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

• 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, Learning, Long

• 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

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

  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, Inability

• 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

• 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

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

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

  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

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