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.
Marva CollinsAn error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
Marva CollinsIf you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
Marva CollinsWhen 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.
Marva CollinsNone of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
Marva CollinsOne 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.
Marva Collins