The process of school improvement cannot be viewed as a stuttering sequence of disjointed activities. Rather, it must be introduced as an integral part of life and professional activities in the school.

~ St Benedict’s Prep School

Do not think of making a case for a particular point of view.  Let us just have the cold-blooded facts.

~ Winston Churchill

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

~ Thomas Carlyle

If  surgery and the law were practised as privately as teaching, we would still treat most patients with leeches and dunk defendants in millponds.

~ Parker J Palmer

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

~ Montaigne

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.  We need to respect that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that – sometimes – we’re better off that way.

~ Malcolm Gradwell

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they may be.

~ Jim Stockdale, quoted by Jim Collins

What is the largest room in the world?

~ Room for improvement.

… until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.

~ Thomas Merton

Quod vides in  speculo, si non placet, speculum non iuvat mutare.

If you look in a mirror and don’t like what you see, it doesn’t help to change the mirror.