In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point, the author explores how little things can make a big difference, defining a tipping point as being a moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. He gives a range of examples including how a trend, political movement or even acts of crime can be extrapolated for better or for worse from the very simplest of beginnings.
I mention this because it feels to me that a “boiling point” is exactly where the education sector is at right now – having just tipped over into a critical mass of unhappiness and overwork resulting in the current crisis in recruitment and retention.
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