Andy Hargreaves Quotes about Learning - Page 2

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

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

Every solution has a problem.

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

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

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

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

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

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

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

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

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

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

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

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

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

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

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

Deadwood did not kill itself!

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

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.

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

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

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