George: ary Main and Carol George, “Responses of Abused and Disadvantaged Toddlers to
Distress in the Day Care Setting,” Developmental Psychology 21 (1985), 407–412. “My parents
pushed me”: ohn McEnroe with James Kaplan, You Cannot Be Serious (New York: Berkley,
2002), 31. However, he says, “Many athletes”: bid., 30. “If Tiger had wanted to be”: om
Callahan, In Search of Tiger: A Journey Through Gold with Tiger Woods (New York: Crown,
2003), 213. Tiger says in return: iger Woods, How I Play Golf (New York: Warner Books,
2001), 302. Dorothy DeLay, the famous violin teacher: arbara L. Sand, Teaching Genius:
Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician (Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2000). One set of
parents: bid., 79. DeLay spent countless hours: bid., 144. Says Yura, “I’m always
happy”: bid., 153. We asked college students to describe: his work was with Bonita London.
Haim Ginott describes Nicholas: inott, Between Parent & Teenager, 132. For thirty-five years,
Sheila Schwartz taught: heila Schwartz, “Teaching’s Unlettered Future,” The New York Times,
August 6, 1998. Marva Collins taught Chicago children: arva Collins and Civia Tamarkin,
Marva Collins’ Way: Returning to Excellence in Education (Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher,
1982/1990); Marva Collins, “Ordinary” Children, Extraordinary Teachers (Charlottesville, VA:
Hampton Roads Publishing, 1992). When 60 Minutesdid a segment: ollins, “Ordinary”
Children, 43–44. Chicago Sun-Timeswriter Zay Smith: ollins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’
Way, 160. As Collins looks back: bid., 47. “I know most of you can’t”: bid., 21–22. As they
changed from children: bid., 68. Rafe Esquith teaches Los Angeles: afe Esquith, There Are
No Shortcuts (New York: Pantheon, 2003). DeLay’s husband always teased her: and, Teaching
Genius, 23. Her mentor and fellow teacher: bid., 54. “I think it’s too easy”: bid., 70. Itzhak
Perlman was her student: bid., 201. “I think she has something special”: bid., 85. Yet she
established on Day One: ollins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 19. When Benjamin
Bloom studied his 120: enjamin S. Bloom, Developing Talent in Young People (New York:
Ballantine Books, 1985). When Collins expanded her school: ollins, “Ordinary”
Children.Esquith bemoans the lowering of standards: squith, There Are No Shortcuts, 53.
“That is part of Miss DeLay’s”: and, Teaching Genius, 219. “I know which child will
handle”: squith, There Are No Shortcuts, 40. Collins echoes that idea: ollins and Tamarkin,
Marva Collins’ Way, 21. One student was sure he couldn’t: and, Teaching Genius, 64. Another
student was intimidated: bid., 114. As Marva Collins said to a boy: ollins and Tamarkin,
Marva Collins’ Way, 208. Here is a shortened version: bid., 85–88. “It’s sort of like Socrates
says”: bid., 159. For a class assignment, he wrote: bid., 165. And she let her students
know: bid., 87. Michael Lewis, in The New York Times: ichael Lewis, “Coach Fitz’s
Management Theory,” The New York Times Magazine, March 28, 2004. Bobby Knight, the
famous and controversial: ob Knight with Bob Hammel, Knight: My Story (New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 2002); Steve Alford with John Garrity, Playing for Knight (New York:
Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989); John Feinstein, A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby
Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987). John
Feinstein, author of Season: einstein, Season on the Brink, 3. In Daryl Thomas, Feinstein
says: bid., 3–4. “You know what you are Daryl?”: bid., 7. An assistant coach had given this
advice: bid., 4. “What I like best about this team”: bid., 25. Steve Alford, who went on: lford,
Playing for Knight, 101. “The atmosphere was poisonous”: bid., 169. Says Alford, “Coach’s
Holy Grail”: bid., 63. In the “season on the brink”: einstein, Season on the Brink, xi. “You
know there were times”: bid., 8–9. Coach John Wooden produced: ohn Wooden with Jack
Tobin, They Call Me Coach (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1972); John Wooden with Steve Jamison,
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court (Lincolnwood, IL:
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