Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have a strong ego, how can you survive? Life is a struggle; if you are egoless you will be destroyed. Then who will resist? Who will fight? Who will compete? And life is a continuous competition. Western psychology says: Attain to the ego, be strong in it.
Retiring is getting ready to die.
I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!