In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

Every learner has special needs.

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 high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.