Conservative Quote by David Cameron

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

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

— Hugh Gaitskell

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

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

— Toby Young

I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds…

— Andrew Neil

The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do…

— Raphael Carter

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years…

— Robert Burchfield

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

— Tony Parsons

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

— Angela Rayner

The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity…

— Andrew Neil

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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