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

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

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

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.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.