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Schools often get the teachers they deserve! — Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings. — Andy Hargreaves

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven. — 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

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

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest. — Andy Hargreaves

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted. — Andy Hargreaves

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it. — Andy Hargreaves

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit — Andy Hargreaves

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script. — Andy Hargreaves

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement. — Andy Hargreaves

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. — Andy Hargreaves

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"! — Andy Hargreaves

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. — Andy Hargreaves

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Trust processes as well as people. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates. — Andy Hargreaves

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. — Andy Hargreaves

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection. — Andy Hargreaves

Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm. — Janet Hargreaves

There's a goose asleep in the rain! — Roger Hargreaves

Every learner has special needs. — Andy Hargreaves

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate. — Andy Hargreaves

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity. — Andy Hargreaves

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor. — Andy Hargreaves

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance. — Andy Hargreaves

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable. — Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a passionate profession. — Andy Hargreaves

There is no algorithm for creativity. — Andy Hargreaves

Range Rovers are the greenest cars on the road. — Peter Hargreaves

I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires. — Peter Hargreaves

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

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure. — Andy Hargreaves

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep. — Andy Hargreaves

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education. — Andy Hargreaves

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious. — Andy Hargreaves

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced. — Andy Hargreaves

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!" — Andy Hargreaves

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it. — Peter Hargreaves

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well. — Andy Hargreaves

Meow!" said the chicken. — Roger Hargreaves

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it! — Andy Hargreaves

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support. — Andy Hargreaves

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system. — 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

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air. — Andy Hargreaves

If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league — Owen Hargreaves

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not. — Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. — Andy Hargreaves

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career. — Andy Hargreaves

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise. — Andy Hargreaves

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right. — Andy Hargreaves

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention — Andy Hargreaves

Time is the enemy of freedom. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business. — Peter Hargreaves

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning. — Andy Hargreaves

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar. — Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it. — Andy Hargreaves

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain. — Andy Hargreaves

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform. — Andy Hargreaves

Deadwood did not kill itself! — Andy Hargreaves

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven. — Andy Hargreaves

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure. — Andy Hargreaves

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment. — Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization. — Andy Hargreaves

At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds — Dr. V. V. Rao

When I fly to European destinations, I always fly economy; I don't fly business class - there is no advantage apart from a few more inches of room. — Peter Hargreaves

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

Walking makes us take problems in our stride. — Andy Hargreaves

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think. — Peter Hargreaves

We should test prudently; not profligately. — Andy Hargreaves

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it. — Andy Hargreaves

The teacher has more power than the Minister. — Andy Hargreaves

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate. — Andy Hargreaves

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East. — Andy Hargreaves

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

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. — Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done. — Andy Hargreaves

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions. — Peter Hargreaves

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same. — Andy Hargreaves

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so. — Rod Liddle

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy. — Andy Hargreaves

Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter. — Adam Hargreaves

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