The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs. Marva Collins More Quotes by Marva Collins More Quotes From Marva Collins I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform. Marva Collins motivational-leadershipconformityworld Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else. Marva Collins teachingeducationchildren There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment Marva Collins wakingmomentsshould 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 inabilitylearningteaching 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. Marva Collins oppositesbelievechildren You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care. Marva Collins teachingteacherpeople Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. Marva Collins learningmindchildren 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. Marva Collins whitepeoplethinking 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 miracleuniquekids 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." Marva Collins finalschicagochildren A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams. Marva Collins switchingstreamspersons Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed. Marva Collins succeedleadersuccess When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. Marva Collins studentsteachingteacher None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success. Marva Collins goodbyechildrenschool 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 educationteacherschool Excellence is not an act, but a habit. Marva Collins motivational-sportsexcellencebusiness People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't? Marva Collins peopleworldschool Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream. Marva Collins good-dreambrakedream Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school. Marva Collins essentialsattitudeschool 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 teachingwritingchildren
