The key to good education is motivated students, motivated teachers and motivated parents, in pretty much that order.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;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.