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Famous Andy Hargreaves Quotes
“Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.”
“On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.”
“Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.”
“It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.”
“Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.”
“Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.”
“Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.”
“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 must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!”
“High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.”
“Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.”
“Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.”
“Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.”
“Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.”
“In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!”
“Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.”
“On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.”
“On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.”
“A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.”
“We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.”