Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

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

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention