Andy Hargreaves Quotes about Learning - Page 3

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

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

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

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

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

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

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

Teaching is a passionate profession.

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

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

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

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

Trust processes as well as people.

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

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.