The key to good education is motivated students, motivated teachers and motivated parents, in pretty much that order. Of course some teaching methodologies are

The key to good education is motivated students, motivated teachers and motivated parents, in pretty much that order. Of course some teaching methodologies are better than other ones, but all the success stories I read, stripped from the fluff are based on enthusiastic and energetic teaches and supportive parents. For the students we just need to not kill their natural learning predisposition. The parents, well, it depends on their culture etc, little to do here as well. So for things we can change were left with the teachers. If they are respected, have a good salary, had a good education, have opportunities for growth, are not strangled by bureaucracy and come from the best of the students, then we'll have good teachers. If they are poorly paid, not recognized, fighting with paperwork and red tape, fighting with entitled parents and coming from the less smart student pool, well, looks a bit like US public system.