Education Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a passionate profession.

— Andy Hargreaves

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

— Andy Hargreaves

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

— Andy Hargreaves

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

— Andy Hargreaves

Every learner has special needs.

— Andy Hargreaves

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

— Andy Hargreaves

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

— Andy Hargreaves

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

— Andy Hargreaves

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

— Andy Hargreaves

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

— Andy Hargreaves

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official…

— Andy Hargreaves

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

— Andy Hargreaves

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over…

— Andy Hargreaves

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not…

— Andy Hargreaves

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest…

— Andy Hargreaves

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who…

— Andy Hargreaves

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't…

— Andy Hargreaves

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

— Andy Hargreaves

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

— Andy Hargreaves

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

— Andy Hargreaves

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

— Andy Hargreaves

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

— Andy Hargreaves

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

— Andy Hargreaves

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

— Andy Hargreaves

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

— Andy Hargreaves

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

— Andy Hargreaves

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

— Andy Hargreaves

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

— Andy Hargreaves