Marva Collins Quotes

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

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.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

If children have interest, then Education happens

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original superficial level, without receiving guidance in study. Furthermore, the 'three Rs,' the fundamental tools, are neglected as long as possible, with the result that the child's chance to develop his mind is greatly retarded. The policy of teaching words via pictures instead of by the alphabet tends to deprive the young child of the greatest reasoning tool of all.