Quotes from Marva Collins

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

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

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

When 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.

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

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

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

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.