Marva Collins 太牛了

作为一个黑人女教师，先后被两任美国总统提名作教育部长，她都拒绝，因为她不喜欢政治，就想教学生。她教的二年级学生，都是黑人区小孩，很多被认为有学习障碍，却能在一年后达到5年级阅读水平。关于教育的重要性，她在70年代是这么写的；

Part of the problem is that people are looking for easy solutions. They have been led to believe that someone else is going to do things for them. Too many black people have fallen into the pattern of listening to the self proclaimed leaders who find it in their own best interest to make people feel there are "free rides" in this world. If so many foreign immigrants could come to America and make it, so can people like those in Garfield Park. But unfortunately, so many blacks are waiting for white America to be their Messiah.

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I am convinced that the real solution is education. We have to teach children self-reliance and self-respect. We have to teach them the importance of learning, of developing skills, of doing for themselves. I am always reminding my students that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for only a day. If you teach him how to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. That's why I stay in Garfield park. The legacy I want to leave behind is a generation of children who realize that you can't get something for nothing, who are proud and resourceful enough to take care of their own. In this messed up world, the only children who are going to make something of themselves are those who come from strong parents or those have had a strong teacher. One or the other. Or both.