Leadership Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

Every solution has a problem.

— Andy Hargreaves

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a passionate profession.

— Andy Hargreaves

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— Andy Hargreaves

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

— Andy Hargreaves

Time is the enemy of freedom.

— Andy Hargreaves

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

— Andy Hargreaves

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

— 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

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

We should test prudently; not profligately.

— Andy Hargreaves

Deadwood did not kill itself!

— Andy Hargreaves

There is no algorithm for creativity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

— Andy Hargreaves

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

— Andy Hargreaves

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

— Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

— Andy Hargreaves

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

— Andy Hargreaves

Every learner has special needs.

— Andy Hargreaves

Trust processes as well as people.

— Andy Hargreaves

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

— Andy Hargreaves

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on…

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves