Hargreaves Quotes & Sayings

When I fly to European destinations, I always fly economy; I don't fly business class - there is no advantage apart from a few more inches of room. — Peter Hargreaves

There is no algorithm for creativity. — Andy Hargreaves

Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position. — Peter Hargreaves

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

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

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East. — Andy Hargreaves

If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league — Owen Hargreaves

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

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play. — Andy Hargreaves

When we played at Celtic Park for Bayern in the Champions League it was unbelievable and I think all our players said the same thing afterwards. The atmosphere was just totally unique. I've played in lots of big games and stadiums but I've never witnessed fans making that much noise in 90 minutes. — Owen Hargreaves

Schools often get the teachers they deserve! — Andy Hargreaves

At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds — Dr. V. V. Rao

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Singapore gives 10 percent 'white space' time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas. — Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business. — Peter Hargreaves

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so. — Rod Liddle

I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large. — Peter Hargreaves

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

The teacher has more power than the Minister. — Andy Hargreaves

Every solution has a problem. — Andy Hargreaves

Walking makes us take problems in our stride. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

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

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious. — Andy Hargreaves

Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most. — Peter Hargreaves

Range Rovers are the greenest cars on the road. — Peter Hargreaves

Meow!" said the chicken. — Roger Hargreaves

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

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

Deadwood did not kill itself! — Andy Hargreaves

Every learner has special needs. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"! — Andy Hargreaves

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think. — Peter Hargreaves

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

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

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it. — Andy Hargreaves

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection. — Andy Hargreaves

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure. — Andy Hargreaves

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

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise. — Andy Hargreaves

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. — Andy Hargreaves

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

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

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict. — Andy Hargreaves

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong. — Peter Hargreaves

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

When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think ... I think I know what childhood's for. It's to give us a bank of happy memories against future suffering. So when sadness comes, at least you can remember what it was to be happy. — John Logan

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

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable. — Andy Hargreaves

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new. — Andy Hargreaves

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

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse. — Andy Hargreaves

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns. — Peter Hargreaves

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system. — Andy Hargreaves

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same. — A. N. Wilson

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos. — Andy Hargreaves

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

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time. — Peter Hargreaves

The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment prevent nuclear proliferation force crooked politicians out of office reduce poverty provide quality health care
for all people and even to save the lives of millions of people as it did in Ethiopia in 1984. But instead we are using it to promote sex violence and sensationalism and to line the pockets of already wealthy media moguls.'
Dr Carl Jensen founder of Project Censored — Ian Hargreaves

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures. — Andy Hargreaves

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies. — Andy Hargreaves

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

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

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

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

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

Professional trust is a process, not a state. — Andy Hargreaves

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers. — Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves

My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I like doing it because it's so different to what I do in the week. The same holds for cleaning the car or shining my shoes. — Peter Hargreaves

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Trust processes as well as people. — Andy Hargreaves

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it. — Peter Hargreaves

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

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention — Andy Hargreaves

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain. — Andy Hargreaves

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds. — Peter Hargreaves

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing. — Andy Hargreaves