48 Quotes by Marva Collins

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

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

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

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.

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

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.

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

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.