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Michael Gove

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  • “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.” -Michael Gove

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  • “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.” -Michael Gove

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  • “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.” -Michael Gove

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  • “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

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  • “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…

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  • “I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.” -Michael Gove

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  • “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

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  • “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.”…

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  • “The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.” -Michael Gove

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  • “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.” -Michael Gove

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