Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

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.

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

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.