and when teacher quality is low governments lend to tell their teachers exactly what to do and exactly how they want it done using an industrial organisation of work to get the results they want today the challenge is to turn teaching into a profession of advancedknowledge workers and to do so across the board rather than in pockets of excellence to attract the people they need modern school systems need to transform the organisation of work in their schools to foster professional norms of control and benchmarks in lieu of bureaucratic and administrative oversight the past was about received wisdom the future is about usergenerated wisdom