Andy Hargreaves Quotes about Leadership - Page 4

Trust processes as well as people.

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

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

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

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

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

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

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

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

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

We should test prudently; not profligately.

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.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

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.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

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

Time is the enemy of freedom.