One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

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

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

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.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

Every solution has a problem.

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