Marva Collins Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

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

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

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

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

[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.

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

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

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