97 Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

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

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

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

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

Teaching is a passionate profession.

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

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.