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Marva Collins Biography

Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator who started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago in 1975.

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

Children, Failures, Kids, School, Teach, Teacher

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. "

Avenue, Chicago, Children, Finals, Michigan, Nancy

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.

Inspirational, Life, Love, Narrow, Nothing, Spark

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Child, Children, Education, Locked, Student, Teaching

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

Children, Education, Interested, Keeping, Teaching, Thing

[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.

Firsts, Grade, Kids, Kindergarten, Read, Rooms

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.

Education, Focus, Industry, School, Teacher

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

Children, Learn, Real, School, Society

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.

Becomes, Joy, Learning, Logical, Long, Teaching

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

Determination, Mistake, Perseverance, Way, World

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

Become, Good, Persons, Streams, Switching

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

Act, Happiness, Success, Suicide, Think, Trust

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

Moments, Set, Should, Time, Waking

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

Children, Learn, Learning, Mind, Nothing

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

Art, Dog, Education, Like, Purpose, School

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.

Believe, Child, Children, Ones, Opposites, Parent

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

Fail, Failed, Students, Teacher, Teaching

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.

Education, Fail, Fix, Student, Teacher, Teaching

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.

Achievers, Children, Education, Labeled, Students, Teacher

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.

Live, Mr Collins, Past, Together, Told, Winning

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