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