We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

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.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Teaching is a passionate profession.

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

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.