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Marva Collins Quotes about School

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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