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Marva Collins
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There isn’t a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment.
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Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn’t-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
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Until kids decide, ‘I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,’ they can never draw the conclusion, ‘Because I’m a miracle, I will never harm another person who’s a miracle like me.’ In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.
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Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
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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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I’m a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
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If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
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