Marva Collins Quotes

Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

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

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

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

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.