"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 with inspirational teachers is the most important thing."
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Michael Gove, born on August 26, 1967, in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a prominent British politician and member of the Conservative Party. Known for his roles as Secretary of State for Education and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Gove has been a pivotal figure in shaping contemporary British policy. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he began his career in journalism before venturing into politics. His legacy is marked by his controversial reforms in education and his staunch advocacy for Brexit, influencing the landscape of modern Britain.
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"The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility."
Michael Gove
"Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves."
Michael Gove"Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children."
Michael Gove"It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning."
Michael Gove"Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve."
Michael Gove
"As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined."
Michael Gove"Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics."
Michael Gove"One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about."
Michael Gove"Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society."
Michael Gove"I think the depressing litany of projections about World War Three and global Brexit recession we hear from the Remain side is not the sort of approach we should take into the future."
Michael Gove