It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.