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Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

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Time is the enemy of freedom.
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Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.
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Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
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We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.
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Improvement is about doing something better innovation is about doing something new.
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Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
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