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Learning Quotes by Andy Hargreaves
- Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
- Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.
- Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
- It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
- The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
- We should test prudently; not profligately.
- Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
- When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
- Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
- Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
- Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
- If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
- The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
- Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
- Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
- Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
- We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
- It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
- What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
- On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
- On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
- If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
- Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
- Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
- Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
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