In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

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.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

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.