Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.
Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
Walking makes us take problems in our stride.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
There is no algorithm for creativity.
The teacher has more power than the Minister.
Time is the enemy of freedom.
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