On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

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.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.