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."

马尔瓦·柯林斯，美国教育工作者，于1975年在伊利诺伊州，芝加哥附近穷困潦倒的加菲尔德园开办了西岸预备学校。她因成功教化了许多被公立学校误认为是没有学习能力的穷困学生而著名。她曾经写道：“在我30年的教学生涯中，我极少遇到没有学习能力的学生。但是我却遇到许许多多由于教育的失败而成为受害者的学生。”

* There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

每个学生本质上都是相当聪明的。

* Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.

要改造学生，先改造自己。

* The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

教学的本质是用一个思想点燃另一个思想。

* Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

成功不会从天而降，你必须去争取它。

* Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

优秀不是一种行为而是一个习惯。你做的最多的会是你做的最好的。

* Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

相信自己，为自己考虑，为自己行动，为自己说话，做你自己，模仿别人即是自杀。

* Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

决心和毅力推动世界，如果你总想依赖别人，你注定失败。

* Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

性格是你所了解的自己，而不是别人眼中的你。

* If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

如果你连犯错都不会，那么你什么也学不会。