The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.