Teaching is a passionate profession.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

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

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!