Leadership Quotes by 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

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

— Andy Hargreaves

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

— Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

— Andy Hargreaves

Deadwood did not kill itself!

— Andy Hargreaves

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

— Andy Hargreaves

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

— Andy Hargreaves

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

— Andy Hargreaves

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

— Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

We should test prudently; not profligately.

— Andy Hargreaves

Time is the enemy of freedom.

— Andy Hargreaves

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

— Andy Hargreaves

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

— Andy Hargreaves

There is no algorithm for creativity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

— Andy Hargreaves

Every solution has a problem.

— 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

Teaching is a passionate profession.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

— Andy Hargreaves

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

— Andy Hargreaves