The teacher has more power than the Minister.

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.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Teaching is a passionate profession.