When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

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

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

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

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