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

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

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

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

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.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

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