Unless schools bring out the inner potential of a child and help her to become self-aware, she cannot lead herself. Leadership is the ability to lead oneself first; then others. School education must, therefore, have a social purpose; not merely academics.

Leadership in schools will emerge only when students and teachers are empowered. In its fundamental sense, empowerment will occur when the responsibility for learning shifts from the teacher to the student. Will teachers allow this; because in a diminutive sense, it will be seen as loss of power. After all, empowerment is about exercising power over oneself, not others. This transition is not going to be easy. So how do we manage the process?

Leadership will arise when schools move away from teaching skills to enable students to acquire competencies, especially:

• Ability to become lifelong learners.
• Ability to love and the capacity to forgive.
• Ability to live together (with nature also) to include conflict-management.
• Synthesizing vast amounts of data and making sense out of it. Transdisciplinary-knowledge is essential in this regards.
  

Leadership will happen when teachers teach the child (whole-education) and not merely the subject.

Principals and all teachers are ultimately transformational leaders, not instructional. They transform themselves, the curriculum, and the child.