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This thesis aims to present the issue of leadership in the field of education. Its purpose is to highlight and record the most appropriate strategies used or to be followed for leadership in primary and secondary schools. For this reason, a primary survey was carried out using a questionnaire on a sample of primary and secondary school teachers, aiming at highlighting the views of teachers on leadership, as well as the ways that it finally emerges through the administrative practices of the directors of Greek schools. The findings of the survey show that the most popular method of selecting directors in education is the process of written examinations and then the graduation of formal qualifications of candidates. A more important feature for an effective leader in a public school is interpersonal communication. It has also been suggested that effective leadership is not a matter of spiritual (natural) endowment. The Director should encourage teachers to be creative and participate in innovative programs. As far as teachers' views on leadership are concerned, scientific training is statistically associated with the extent to which they consider that effective leadership is not a matter of spiritual (physical) gifting and education or exercise. Moreover, interpersonal communication is statistically significant correlated with the extent to which they consider the director to encourage teachers to be creative and to participate in innovations. In addition, organizational capacity is statistically significantly correlated with the degree that they consider the leader director to have constructive criticism of teachers, thereby contributing to the overall quality of the educational process. In addition, interpersonal communication is statistically significantly associated with the extent to which they feel that the director has to criticize constructively teachers, thereby contributing to the overall development of the educational process.