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

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

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

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

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

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

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.