Leadership Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

— Andy Hargreaves

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

— Andy Hargreaves

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Trust processes as well as people.

— Andy Hargreaves

Every learner has special needs.

— Andy Hargreaves

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

— Andy Hargreaves

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

— Andy Hargreaves

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

— Andy Hargreaves

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

— 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

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

— Andy Hargreaves

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a passionate profession.

— Andy Hargreaves

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

— Andy Hargreaves

Every solution has a problem.

— Andy Hargreaves

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

— Andy Hargreaves

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

There is no algorithm for creativity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Deadwood did not kill itself!

— Andy Hargreaves

Time is the enemy of freedom.

— Andy Hargreaves

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

— Andy Hargreaves

We should test prudently; not profligately.

— Andy Hargreaves

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

— Andy Hargreaves

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

— Andy Hargreaves

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

— Andy Hargreaves

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

— Andy Hargreaves