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.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

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

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.