97 Quotes by Andy Hargreaves

Every solution has a problem.

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

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.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don’t confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people’s ideas.

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

We should test prudently; not profligately.

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

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.