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

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

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

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

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.