This is known as dualism. Dualism is the view that the mind and body both exist. There are two basic types of dualism: o Descartes dualism: The view that the mind and body function separately, without interchange. o Cartesian dualism argues that there is a two-way interaction between mental and physical substances. Dualism is in contrast to monism that states the mind and body are the same thing.
Marva Collins, nÃ©e Marva Delores Knight (born August 31, 1936, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.âdied June 24, 2015, Bluffton, South Carolina), American educator who broke with a public school system she found to be failing inner-city children and established her own rigorous system and practice to cultivate her studentsâ independence and accomplishment.
Marva Collins taught school for two years in Alabama, then moved to Chicago, where she taught in public schools for 14 years. Her experiences in that system, coupled with her dissatisfaction with the quality of education that her two youngest children were receiving in prestigious private schools, convinced her that children deserved better than what was passing for acceptable education.