Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.