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

We should test prudently; not profligately.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

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

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.