"What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less."

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Source : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

Marva Collins

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“I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.”
“I am very honest with them - with an understanding that I'm doing them a disservice if I'm not telling them what I see. At the same time trying to remember that they're people and they'reÂ children and you know they are going to have off days and that's something that I feel like I've had to work on as I've gone down the coaching route.”
“I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.”
“If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.”

Source : "Bits and pieces". www.thenews.com.pk. February 18, 2011.
“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”
“Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?”
“Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!”
“The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.”

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