“The
best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of
reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
― H.L. Mencken
Marva
Collins was an American Educator who in 1975 started the Westside Preparatory
School in Garsfield Park, in an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago,
Illinois. Before that she taught school for two years in Alabama and for
fourteen years in Chicago
She is
most famous for applying classical education successfully to impoverished
children.
Marva Collins was a proponent
of the classical educational movement. The definition of a classical education
embraced the study of literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, history, art and
languages.
