What to teach and how has become what I do. I don't really know when it became the only thing I think about and engage with. If I were to think about what gives me joy, I cannot count my concerns about education and the work I do towards resolving those concerns as joyous. Like a writer trapped by his own need to pen his thoughts, I feel compelled by the imperative. More often than I would like, I am reminded that I have chosen the right profession. I would rather not think so. I wish it were unnecessary and irrelevant. It would mean that there weren't problems that needed fixing. Unfortunately, much more severe, that many other seemingly unrelated social challenges could not be traced back to a poor education system. I started out wanting to be a psychologist, then needed to get a perspective on the social dimension, thus studied development, then got interested in education as a possible key intervention, then assessment and counseling, finally scaling quality and the questi...