她的成功难以复制
这本书是Tal Ben Shahar的力荐。Marva Collins可能是美国当代最传奇的小学教师，她拒绝了美国总统邀她出任教育部长的邀请，坚守在她一手创办的Westside Preparatory. 这本书是Marva的个人经历：书中没有条条框框的系统理论，只是将Marva的故事娓娓道来，真实而感人。
读这本书的时候细数了一遍从小到大教过我的老师们，虽然有幸一路都在上海一流的学校，但从来没有一个老师能够做到Marva的一半，就像书中写的: You can pay someone to teach, but not to care. Marva的成功奥秘在于她视教书育人为自己的使命，全心地爱护学生，相信学生。可以说，她是用强大的信念从积极面验证了自证预言的效应。
Marva的教学方式，虽然非常有效，但对教师的知识、情感、操行和体力的要求却很高。我相信，即使把本书列为所有师范院校的必读书，用Marva Collins Method训练所有的师范生，也不会对教育质量和教师素质产生什么实质影响。能够切实执行Marva的教学法，需要的是教师的个人信念，这点也决定了这种教育方式很难进行规模复制。即使是Marva自己，也没能将Westside Prep.持续扩大，学校早期的成功很大程度上来源于Marva的个人能量，而非成型的系统模式。所以，也不难理解Westside Prep.的最后的无奈结局。
虽然如此，我觉得这本书最大的借鉴意义其实在于家庭教育，而非学校教育。最应该阅读本书的可能是年轻的家长们，Marva给孩子们最重要的礼物：自爱和自信，其实应该是早期家庭教育的重要内容。
Further Reading:
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(本书其实比较像个人自传，下面三本更偏重教学法):
The Marva Collins method; a manual for educating and motivating your child by Marva Collins
Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers, by Marva Collins
Values: Lighting The Candle of Excellence: A Practical Guide, by Marva Collins
Quotes:
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There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide......Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Let us once again return the teaching of classics and poetry to our children. Let us once again set our children adrift in a sea of morality …Could it be that we have allowed them to grow up without direction, without morals? Without attempting to help them arrange the puzzles in their minds? Without giving them heroes and heroines to believe in?
Let us once again teach our children to tell time as well as purchase digital watches for them. Let us once again teach our children to tie their shoelaces as well as provide Velcro closures for them. Let us once again teach our children the multiplication tables before we buy them calculators. Let us once again teach our children that the mind is the best computer before we put them on computers.
The good school does not place readiness above thoroughness, memory above mastery, glibness above sincerity, uniformity above originality, and the rules and modes of the dead past above the work of the living present.
We emphasize a total learning experience. Not only must students be able to pass tests, perform academically, and work through social situations, but they must also have a sense of humanity and compassion.
To see things as they really are is one of the crowning privileges of the educated man, and to help others to see them so is one of the greatest services he can render to society.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
教育：
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
A school will only work because of motivated leadership and dedication from the teachers.
Do whatever profession you're in, do it every day, every moment, as if the whole world were watching. I teach as if Jesus Christ Himself were in that classroom. And when you do that, you’re bound to see great things happening.
Once teachers try the Socratic, or direct method of teaching, they will never return to anything that cannot produce the 'magic.'
The "miracle" of teaching is "…dedication, common-sense, determination, and a love for our students.
Always make friends with each student before there is a discipline problem.
Find something positive to say about a child every morning
When our children walk in the door, I say, "Welcome to success. Say goodbye to failure because you are not going to fail. I'm not going to let you fail."
Children respond to love and positive feedback rather than negative programming.
Have a child write a composition or deliver a speech entitled "Why I Am Too Bright to Waste Time in School."
Avoid telling parents negative things about their children. You and the child attempt to solve the problems that arise in your classroom. You earn the respect and trust of your students, and you become a more effective teacher.
None of our teachers has a desk. Every teacher walks from student to student to mediate errors before they become permanent errors…If you red-mark papers and give them back to students a week, two weeks later, the errors mean very little to them
Remember, school is a microcosm of the real world. The reason most schools do not work is that school is just the opposite of what is expected of citizens in the real world. This, therefore, means that a child must practice being above average in school so that they can take what they’ve learned into the real world. This means giving each task in school a real effort, not just doing enough to squeeze by.
犯错：
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
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.
We do not have the discipline problems that most schools have…a child will say to another one, "You've taken away my right to learn."...Or if a child insists on acting up, we will say, 'Why aren't you going to do that?' Their retort to us is, "Because I'm too bright to waste my time."
读这本书的时候细数了一遍从小到大教过我的老师们，虽然有幸一路都在上海一流的学校，但从来没有一个老师能够做到Marva的一半，就像书中写的: You can pay someone to teach, but not to care. Marva的成功奥秘在于她视教书育人为自己的使命，全心地爱护学生，相信学生。可以说，她是用强大的信念从积极面验证了自证预言的效应。
Marva的教学方式，虽然非常有效，但对教师的知识、情感、操行和体力的要求却很高。我相信，即使把本书列为所有师范院校的必读书，用Marva Collins Method训练所有的师范生，也不会对教育质量和教师素质产生什么实质影响。能够切实执行Marva的教学法，需要的是教师的个人信念，这点也决定了这种教育方式很难进行规模复制。即使是Marva自己，也没能将Westside Prep.持续扩大，学校早期的成功很大程度上来源于Marva的个人能量，而非成型的系统模式。所以，也不难理解Westside Prep.的最后的无奈结局。
虽然如此，我觉得这本书最大的借鉴意义其实在于家庭教育，而非学校教育。最应该阅读本书的可能是年轻的家长们，Marva给孩子们最重要的礼物：自爱和自信，其实应该是早期家庭教育的重要内容。
Further Reading:
＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
(本书其实比较像个人自传，下面三本更偏重教学法):
The Marva Collins method; a manual for educating and motivating your child by Marva Collins
Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers, by Marva Collins
Values: Lighting The Candle of Excellence: A Practical Guide, by Marva Collins
Quotes:
======
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide......Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Let us once again return the teaching of classics and poetry to our children. Let us once again set our children adrift in a sea of morality …Could it be that we have allowed them to grow up without direction, without morals? Without attempting to help them arrange the puzzles in their minds? Without giving them heroes and heroines to believe in?
Let us once again teach our children to tell time as well as purchase digital watches for them. Let us once again teach our children to tie their shoelaces as well as provide Velcro closures for them. Let us once again teach our children the multiplication tables before we buy them calculators. Let us once again teach our children that the mind is the best computer before we put them on computers.
The good school does not place readiness above thoroughness, memory above mastery, glibness above sincerity, uniformity above originality, and the rules and modes of the dead past above the work of the living present.
We emphasize a total learning experience. Not only must students be able to pass tests, perform academically, and work through social situations, but they must also have a sense of humanity and compassion.
To see things as they really are is one of the crowning privileges of the educated man, and to help others to see them so is one of the greatest services he can render to society.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
教育：
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
A school will only work because of motivated leadership and dedication from the teachers.
Do whatever profession you're in, do it every day, every moment, as if the whole world were watching. I teach as if Jesus Christ Himself were in that classroom. And when you do that, you’re bound to see great things happening.
Once teachers try the Socratic, or direct method of teaching, they will never return to anything that cannot produce the 'magic.'
The "miracle" of teaching is "…dedication, common-sense, determination, and a love for our students.
Always make friends with each student before there is a discipline problem.
Find something positive to say about a child every morning
When our children walk in the door, I say, "Welcome to success. Say goodbye to failure because you are not going to fail. I'm not going to let you fail."
Children respond to love and positive feedback rather than negative programming.
Have a child write a composition or deliver a speech entitled "Why I Am Too Bright to Waste Time in School."
Avoid telling parents negative things about their children. You and the child attempt to solve the problems that arise in your classroom. You earn the respect and trust of your students, and you become a more effective teacher.
None of our teachers has a desk. Every teacher walks from student to student to mediate errors before they become permanent errors…If you red-mark papers and give them back to students a week, two weeks later, the errors mean very little to them
Remember, school is a microcosm of the real world. The reason most schools do not work is that school is just the opposite of what is expected of citizens in the real world. This, therefore, means that a child must practice being above average in school so that they can take what they’ve learned into the real world. This means giving each task in school a real effort, not just doing enough to squeeze by.
犯错：
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
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.
We do not have the discipline problems that most schools have…a child will say to another one, "You've taken away my right to learn."...Or if a child insists on acting up, we will say, 'Why aren't you going to do that?' Their retort to us is, "Because I'm too bright to waste my time."
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