Learning Quotes
- 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
- 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