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Marva Collins
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“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.”
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“What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their children and do not settle for anything less.”
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“A good teacher can always make a poor student good and a good student superior.”
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“You can pay people to teach, but not to care.”
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“Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.”
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“Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.”
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“If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.”
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“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.”
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“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.”
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“I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.”
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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, U.S. educator
(1936 - 2015)
Full name: Marva Deloise Nettles Collins.