Top 100 Hargreaves Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Hargreaves

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Andy Hargreaves

#4. Trust processes as well as people.

Andy Hargreaves

#5. Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

Andy Hargreaves

#6. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Andy Hargreaves

#7. Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#9. Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

Andy Hargreaves

#10. The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

Andy Hargreaves

#11. Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Andy Hargreaves

#12. In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

Andy Hargreaves

#13. 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

#14. Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Andy Hargreaves

#15. Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#17. Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

Andy Hargreaves

#18. 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

#19. If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

Andy Hargreaves

#20. Every learner has special needs.

Andy Hargreaves

#21. Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#23. There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Andy Hargreaves

#24. Deadwood did not kill itself!

Andy Hargreaves

#25. It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Andy Hargreaves

#26. 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

#27. I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn Â£208,000 a year.

Peter Hargreaves

#28. Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#30. Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

Andy Hargreaves

#31. Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

Andy Hargreaves

#32. Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

Andy Hargreaves

#33. Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Andy Hargreaves

#34. On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Andy Hargreaves

#35. We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

Andy Hargreaves

#36. 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

#37. When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Andy Hargreaves

#38. On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#40. There is no algorithm for creativity.

Andy Hargreaves

#41. 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

#42. We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.

Peter Hargreaves

#43. The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Andy Hargreaves

#44. Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

Andy Hargreaves

#45. In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#48. There's a goose asleep in the rain!

Roger Hargreaves

#49. 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

#50. On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#53. Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

Andy Hargreaves

#54. When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Andy Hargreaves

#55. Range Rovers are the greenest cars on the road.

Peter Hargreaves

#56. Meow!" said the chicken.

Roger Hargreaves

#57. Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Andy Hargreaves

#58. Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Andy Hargreaves

#59. A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

Andy Hargreaves

#60. 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

#61. Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm.

Janet Hargreaves

#62. It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Andy Hargreaves

#63. Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#65. Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.

Andy Hargreaves

#66. 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

#67. On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Andy Hargreaves

#68. Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#70. Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

Andy Hargreaves

#71. We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#75. Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Andy Hargreaves

#76. 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

#77. Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

Andy Hargreaves

#78. The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Andy Hargreaves

#79. A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

Andy Hargreaves

#80. One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

Andy Hargreaves

#81. You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Andy Hargreaves

#82. If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league

Owen Hargreaves

#83. Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#85. Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.

Peter Hargreaves

#86. Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

Andy Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#88. At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds

Dr. V. V. Rao

#89. I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.

Peter Hargreaves

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

Andy Hargreaves

#91. Professional trust is a process, not a state.

Andy Hargreaves

#92. Time is the enemy of freedom.

Andy Hargreaves

#93. High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

Andy Hargreaves

#94. Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Andy Hargreaves

#95. 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