Marva Collins Quotes

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

We need to invest in very different ways. Get the students the support they need, get them the best principals, get them the great teachers, and I promise you those students would do extraordinarily well. I have seen it all my life.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

All students can learn.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

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

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

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.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.