Education Quote by Andrew Neil

Conservatives have always embraced the idea of grammar schools - that giving a top tier education to bright children from working class backgrounds provides…

— Dawn Foster

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

— Margaret Thatcher

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

— Angela Rayner

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

— Angela Rayner

We have an almost complete comprehensive primary school system in England. Surely, if grammar schools are some kind of answer to making education better…

— Michael Rosen

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

— Toby Young

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public…

— Trevor Paglen

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative…

— David Cameron

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an…

— Anonymous

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

— E. B. White

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a…

— Charlton Laird

“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a…

— Paula Polk Lillard