Backgrounds Quote by Margaret Thatcher

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

— Sarah Waters

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

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was…

— Andrew Neil

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

— Sivamani

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

— Andrew Neil

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

— Angela Rayner

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

— David Starkey

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled…

— Edmund Hillary

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

— Amy Klobuchar

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

Schools are more than just places where students learn how to read and write - they're communities. They're like second families to our students.

— Miguel Cardona

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