Learning Quotes
- It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action. — Andy Hargreaves
- You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations. — Andy Hargreaves
- You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is. — Andy Hargreaves
- In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support. — Andy Hargreaves
- As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it. — Andy Hargreaves
- Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest. — Andy Hargreaves
- Schools often get the teachers they deserve! — Andy Hargreaves
- Deadwood did not kill itself! — Andy Hargreaves
- Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced. — Andy Hargreaves
- Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies. — Andy Hargreaves
- Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. — Andy Hargreaves
- Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves
- On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with. — Andy Hargreaves
- Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new. — Andy Hargreaves
- Every solution has a problem. — Andy Hargreaves
- Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance. — Andy Hargreaves
- There is no algorithm for creativity. — Andy Hargreaves
- The teacher has more power than the Minister. — Andy Hargreaves
- Time is the enemy of freedom. — Andy Hargreaves
- Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate. — Andy Hargreaves