Marva Collins Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

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

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Children, School

• None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

  Marva Collins

  Goodbye, Children, School

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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

  Marva Collins

  Dog, Art, Cat

• 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

  Education, Teacher, School

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

• Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

  Marva Collins

  Attitude, School, Essentials

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

• I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my children is to watch what they do at school, and I was always a bit unhappy with the academic program. It was a kind of hit and miss.

  Marva Collins

  Children, School, Missing

  Source: reason.com

• One of the things that even wealthy children need is an education, and I think the problems I saw really have nothing to do with economics. So I was unhappy with what my own children were getting even in the better schools, and then I was seeing so many children here recruited for failure.

  Marva Collins

  Children, School, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

• People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

  Marva Collins

  School, People, World

  Source: reason.com

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

  Marva Collins

  Children, Real, School

  Source: reason.com

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