Marva Collins: Heroine Educator Dead at 78
If you have not read "Marva Collin's Way" I recommend it highly. Please check out interview with Marva Collins and her answers regarding Rand, from the link below:
"Q: How did you first discover Ayn Rand?
Collins: I think I’ve always been a reader—I read at least five to six hundred books a year, that’s not a difficult thing. I have read some of everybody.
Q: Do you have any major disagreements with her philosophy?
Collins: No, because I think she has a right to her philosophy. I think that most of what she talks about is compatible. We use it as a textbook here with our third-graders. We’re reading "The Comprachicos" now.
Q: Oh! How do the students react to Ayn Rand?
Collins: Well, that’s why its sad—if you talk to our students they know perhaps more about Ayn Rand than most grown-ups. I think, again, every child here is steeped in self, and doing it for themselves, and leaving no blank spaces and that kind of thing."
http://www.fullcontext.info/people/colli...
[edited to add link on MC's thoughts about Rand
"Q: How did you first discover Ayn Rand?
Collins: I think I’ve always been a reader—I read at least five to six hundred books a year, that’s not a difficult thing. I have read some of everybody.
Q: Do you have any major disagreements with her philosophy?
Collins: No, because I think she has a right to her philosophy. I think that most of what she talks about is compatible. We use it as a textbook here with our third-graders. We’re reading "The Comprachicos" now.
Q: Oh! How do the students react to Ayn Rand?
Collins: Well, that’s why its sad—if you talk to our students they know perhaps more about Ayn Rand than most grown-ups. I think, again, every child here is steeped in self, and doing it for themselves, and leaving no blank spaces and that kind of thing."
http://www.fullcontext.info/people/colli...
[edited to add link on MC's thoughts about Rand
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Thanks John.
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pity 0 wasn't one of her students. she unfortunately did not have enough influence on people who claim to be teachers.
I believe, therefore, that the true centre of correlation of the school subjects is not science, nor literature, nor history, nor geography, but the child's own social activities" and ask yourself in which ones classroom you'd want to enroll your children.
How is that possible, let alone "not difficult", with any kind of serious books? That's an average of at least 1.5 books a day.