Quotes from Andy Hargreaves

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

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

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

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

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

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

Trust processes as well as people.

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

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

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.