Marva Collins was not going to let any child make her a bad teacher. It was her attitude that make children learn. What she did was brainwash them into succeeding. She was forever saying "You can do it," convincing her students there wasn't anything they could not do. There were no excuses for a child's not learning.
There was NO POINT IN FIXING THE BLAME ON TELEVISION, OR PARENTS, OR A CHILD'S ENVIRONMENT. The decisive factor was the teacher up in front of the class. If a child sensed a teacher didn't care, then all the textbooks and prepackaged lesson plans and audio-visual equipment and fancy, new, carpeted, air-conditioned building facilities weren't going to get that children learn.
First Marva had to convince the children she cared about them, convince them to trust her, and make them believe they could do anything they wanted to do. In her book, Marva mention that every children need reassurance and encouragement. They have to be told that it is all right to make mistakes because mistakes are part of learning. She tell her students, "If you knew everything there is to know, then you wouldn't have to be in school."
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