Quotes from Andy Hargreaves

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

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.

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

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

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

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

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

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

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

Deadwood did not kill itself!

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

Time is the enemy of freedom.

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

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

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

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

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

We should test prudently; not profligately.