Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

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.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

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.