Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

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.

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

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.