Education is entirely about change – about drawing things out of people and creating the generations of the future.  And effective change is inalienably about learning – figuring out the best way forward for the greatest good.  In the past, competing theories of change-in-action – top down or bottom-up, prescriptive or self-developed, politically or professionally driven – have divided people and set them against each other in wars over how to change the world and for what purpose…..Change does not come passively or always peaceably.  Sometimes positive change has to be something for which we fight together – not in a war against each other, but in a hopeful struggle against the odds of drift, despair, and despondency.  Changing the world begins with a change in ourselves, and then with changes in one another.

Hargreaves and Fullan. Change Wars. 2009