Marva Collins is an American educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in Garfield Park, an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. She is famous for applying classical education successfully with impoverished students, many of whom had been wrongly labeled as learning disabled by public schools. She once wrote, "I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities."
馬爾瓦·柯林斯，美國教育工作者，于1975年在伊利諾伊州，芝加哥附近窮困潦倒的加菲爾德園開辦了西岸預備學校。她因成功教化了許多被公立學校誤認為是沒有學習能力的窮困學生而著名。她曾經(jīng)寫道：“在我30年的教學生涯中，我極少遇到?jīng)]有學習能力的學生。但是我卻遇到許許多多由于教育的失敗而成為受害者的學生。”
* There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
每個學生本質上都是相當聰明的。
* Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.
要改造學生，先改造自己。
* The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
教學的本質是用一個思想點燃另一個思想。