Teacher Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— Andy Hargreaves

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

— Andy Hargreaves

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

— Andy Hargreaves

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest…

— 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

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official…

— Andy Hargreaves

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't…

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

— Andy Hargreaves

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

— 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

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

— Andy Hargreaves

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

— 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