Andy Hargreaves Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

• On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Assessment

• One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Ass

• Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Mean

• Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Jobs, Teaching

  Andy Hargreaves (2001). “Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age”, p.147, A&C Black

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Reading, Book

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Caring

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Mean

• On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Arrogance

• You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Waste

• Time is the enemy of freedom.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Enemy

  Andy Hargreaves (2001). “Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age”, p.95, A&C Black

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

  Andy Hargreaves (2001). “Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age”, p.165, A&C Black

• Every learner has special needs.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Special

• Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Mother, Educational

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Fearless

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Government

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Opportunity

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Support

• Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Iron

• Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Culture

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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