Learning Quotes
- We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines. — Andy Hargreaves
- The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise. — 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
- Teaching is a passionate profession. — Andy Hargreaves
- Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done. — Andy Hargreaves
- The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give. — Andy Hargreaves
- Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are. — Andy Hargreaves
- When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties. — Andy Hargreaves
- Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit — Andy Hargreaves
- Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right. — 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
- Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. — Andy Hargreaves
- Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system. — Andy Hargreaves
- Every learner has special needs. — Andy Hargreaves
- On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor. — Andy Hargreaves
- Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change. — Andy Hargreaves
- It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure. — Andy Hargreaves
- Professional trust is a process, not a state. — Andy Hargreaves
- Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy. — Andy Hargreaves