Marva Collins Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.