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

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!