Human beings were designed for learning. No other form of life is constructed quite the same way that we are and we're finding that human beings are indeed learning organisms.
All humans continue to grow intellectually throughout their lifetimes.
We all continue to grow and develop our capacities. Your role in leadership is to create an intellectually stimulating, cooperative, and creative environment because teachers will more likely teach for thinking if they are in an intellectually stimulating, cooperative and creative environment themselves. It's with this notion that I'd like to suggest to you then that you have kind of a new role in leadership. And that is to create the school as an intellectual ecology. As a leader you're going to have to manage the intellectual ecology of the school, to mediate the cognitive growth of all of the inhabitants of the school, and ensure that thinking and creativity become neither endangered nor extinct.