Michael Gove Quotes

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• The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that…
• You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'
• I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and…
• I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.
• The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
• It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.
• Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
• Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
• I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
• In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
• Many more schools can be outstanding.
• One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
• Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
• Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
• Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment…
• I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick…
• I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
• For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
• The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time…
• Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

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