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

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.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

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

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

Every solution has a problem.