Learning Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

There is no algorithm for creativity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

— 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

Deadwood did not kill itself!

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a passionate profession.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

Every solution has a problem.

— Andy Hargreaves

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

— Andy Hargreaves

Trust processes as well as people.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

— Andy Hargreaves

Every learner has special needs.

— Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

— Andy Hargreaves

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

— Andy Hargreaves

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

— Andy Hargreaves

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves