Learning Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

Every solution has a problem.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

— Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Trust processes as well as people.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— 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

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

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

— Andy Hargreaves

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

— Andy Hargreaves

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

— Andy Hargreaves

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

— Andy Hargreaves

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

— 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

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves