100 Quotes to Teach and Lead By:
key quotes from the collected works of Andy Hargreaves
Quotes 26-50
#26 As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
#27 Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
#28 Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
#29 Deadwood did not kill itself!
#30 Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
#31 Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
#32 Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
#33 Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
#34 On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
#35 On change: Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.
#36 On learning: Every solution has a problem.
#37 On being: Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
#38 On technology: There is no algorithm for creativity.
#39 On politics: The teacher has more power than the Minister.
#40 Time is the enemy of freedom.
#41 Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
#42 We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
#43 The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
#44 The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
#45 Teaching is a passionate profession.
#46 Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
#47 The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
#48 Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
#49 When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
#50 Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Quotes 1-25 | Quotes 26-50 | Quotes 51-75 | Quotes 76-100
#27 Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
#28 Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
#29 Deadwood did not kill itself!
#30 Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
#31 Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
#32 Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
#33 Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
#34 On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
#35 On change: Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.
#36 On learning: Every solution has a problem.
#37 On being: Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
#38 On technology: There is no algorithm for creativity.
#39 On politics: The teacher has more power than the Minister.
#40 Time is the enemy of freedom.
#41 Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
#42 We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
#43 The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
#44 The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
#45 Teaching is a passionate profession.
#46 Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
#47 The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
#48 Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
#49 When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
#50 Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Quotes 1-25 | Quotes 26-50 | Quotes 51-75 | Quotes 76-100