Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

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

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.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.