Marva Collins Quotes

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

You learn a lot from kids.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

I listen to kids play a lot.

I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

Kids may only be 25 percent of our population but they are 100 percent of our future.