Leadership Quotes by Andy Hargreaves · Page 3

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

— Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

— Andy Hargreaves

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

— Andy Hargreaves

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves