Marva Collins Quotes - Page 2

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

  Marva Collins

  Goodbye, Children, School

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

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• Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

  Marva Collins

  Motivational Sports, Business, Excellence

  Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.114, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.

  Marva Collins

  Switching, Streams, Persons

  Source: reason.com

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

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  Attitude, School, Essentials

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

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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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  Teaching, Learning, Inability

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• I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.

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  Strings Attached, Want, Needs

  Source: reason.com

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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.

  Marva Collins

  Kids, Unique, Miracle

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

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  Teacher, Teaching, Easy

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

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

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  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

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  Children, Learning, Mind

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

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

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  Teacher, Teaching, People

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• I believe the more difficult a child is, the more I want that child. But I won't take a child until the parent brings him to us. So it is just the opposite - we get the ones that no one else will take. We get sawdust, and we have to make boards out of it.

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  Children, Believe, Opposites

  Source: reason.com

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

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  World, Conformity, Motivational Leadership

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• Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

  Marva Collins

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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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

  Children, Teaching, Writing

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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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  Waking, Moments, Should

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

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  Education, Children, Teaching

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

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• I'm not one of those who say this is the way. I'm not that opinionated. I can only say this is my way. Even the $1,000 scholarship that my son could have gotten from the state of Illinois to go to college, we didn't want. I'd rather get out and work and have my children know that their money comes from their parents and we have to work for it.

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  Children, Son, College

  Source: reason.com

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• You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c."

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  Children, Chicago, Finals

  Source: reason.com

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• Education is the thing. This black-white bit - I don't deal with people that way. I deal with it as if you are another individual. If you do something that perturbs me or aggravates me, I do not think you've done it because I'm black.

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  Thinking, White, People

  Source: reason.com

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• [Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

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  Kids, Rooms, Firsts

  Source: reason.com

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• Our children learn the phonetic method, which is why they're very good spellers, I suppose. Because rather than ABC or just saying a word, they'll have to go a as in apple and all the other a's there are in the English language. They learn that when they're four. Children all over America can tell you that a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y are vowels. But you ask them about that "sometimes y," and they can't tell you.

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  Children, Apples, America

  Source: reason.com

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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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  Dog, Art, Cat

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• One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.

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  Children, Sorry, Husband

  Source: reason.com

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• Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

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  Dream, Good Dream, Brake

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