Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

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

Teaching is a passionate profession.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

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

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

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.