Time is the enemy of freedom.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Trust processes as well as people.

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.