Michael Gove Quotes

A collection of quotes by Michael Gove.

Michael Gove is a British politician who was born on August 26, 1967. He served as Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath from 2005 to 2019 and has held various ministerial positions in the UK government. Gove has been a prominent figure in British politics, known for his roles in education reform and environmental policy. He played a key role in the Brexit campaign and served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019.

I think the people in this country have had enough of expert

I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

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Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately

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 they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea

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 the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking -

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downto

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.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the grou

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.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of kn

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers,

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in

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.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is

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.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with

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.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you s

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.