Education Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

— Andy Hargreaves

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

— Andy Hargreaves

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

— Andy Hargreaves