Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

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

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

There is no algorithm for creativity.

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

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