A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.