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Marva Collins was an American educator known for her unique teaching methods and her dedication to educating students from impoverished backgrounds. Born on August 31, 1936, she passed away on June 24, 2015. Collins founded the Marva Collins Academy in the贫民区 of Chicago, committed to providing education for students who were considered uneducable.

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Famous Marva Collins Quotes

“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.”

Source: Marva Collins Way

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

School Attitude Essentials Praise Developing

Book:Marva Collins' Way

Source: Marva Collins' Way

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

People Children Problem Kids School Teach Teacher Failing School System

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“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.”

Kind Children Done School Bits Watches One Thing Missing Program Unhappy My Children Academic Elites

Author:Marva Collins

“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.”

Thinking Needs Children Problem School My Own Saws Seeing Economics Unhappy Wealthy

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

People World School Live By

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

Thinking World Trying Children Real School Function Real World Miniatures

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

May Children School Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Welcome Goodbye

Book:Marva Collins' Way

Source: Marva Collins' Way

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

Persons Art School Purpose Dog Cat Cat And Dog Art Education Liberal Arts Liberal Arts Education

Author:Marva Collins

About the Author

Born: August 31, 1936
Died: June 24, 2015
Known for: Biographer
Quotes: 54

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