Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

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

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.