Marva Collins Comment

Marva Collins
Comment

This woman was one symbol of people who want to be successful in life without care other people’s thoughts, in the time when black people did not have the same opportunities as the rest (for instance use the public library)

Working as teacher, she realized the quality of education that her children were receiving in prestigious private schools was not the best, it convinced her that children deserved better than what was passing for acceptable education. That is why she opened her own school using a participative methodology in her classroom.

Marva showed people that teaching is based on teaching children the values in order to give their points of view and to express their own opinion; that children are ready to participate in classroom discussions developing their reasoning abilities.

She decided not to follow the same rules or ways of teaching as the rest of professionals because those were focus just in teachers’ points of view did not taking into consideration what the students think and need. She demonstrated that student’s participation is one way to improve society development because children will be able to analyze and criticize social issues given their perspective and maybe they should have the solution of future problems