Marva Collins Quotes About School
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None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
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People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?
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One of the things that even wealthy children need is an education, and I think the problems I saw really have nothing to do with economics. So I was unhappy with what my own children were getting even in the better schools, and then I was seeing so many children here recruited for failure.
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I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my children is to watch what they do at school, and I was always a bit unhappy with the academic program. It was a kind of hit and miss.
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Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.
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There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.
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That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
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The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
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Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
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