Michael Gove Quotes:- Michael Gove (Born August 1967) is a British Conservative politician who has been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since July 2019 and Minister for the Cabinet Office since February 2020.
Inspirational Michael Gove Quotes
I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don’t think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.
Michael Gove
It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.
Michael Gove
Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt and new means of becoming indebted.
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Well I’ve been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they’re Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.
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A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.
Michael Gove
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.
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I’m clear that we do need to improve what’s happening in our schools.
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Famous Michael Gove Quotes
At the moment, I’m afraid that the discipline system doesn’t give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I’ve been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.
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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.
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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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I think it’s appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
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.
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I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
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Famous Quotes by Michael Gove
You know you don’t see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don’t believe that teachers and head teachers should. It’s within their rights, it’s a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.
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
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.
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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.
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One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
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It’s often the case that successful people invite criticism.
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In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won’t stop me trying.
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Many more schools can be outstanding.
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Greatest Michael Gove Quotes
When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they’d most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.
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It’s critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
Michael Gove
My sister and I know our lives could have been different – radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different – if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother’s arms brings.
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I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
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Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won’t challenge unfit parents.
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Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you’ve never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
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I’m a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.
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.
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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
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more – if it were ‘Twilight’ or ‘Middlemarch?’
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I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.
Michael Gove
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
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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.
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Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
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Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
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I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.
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Latest Michael Gove Quotes
The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.
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I want people to be the authors of their own life story.
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I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.
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We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.
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The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
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I put my country and my principles first.
Michael Gove
The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.
Michael Gove
I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.
Michael Gove
I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.
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If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I’ve subsequently had.
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Michael Gove Education Quotes
If we, in the future, have confidence in ourselves, then there’s no limit to what we can achieve, and I think the depressing litany… that we hear from the Remain side is not the type of approach we should take into the future.
Michael Gove
I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great.
Michael Gove
There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.
Michael Gove
I can’t foretell the future, but I don’t believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.
Michael Gove
I don’t want to have anyone else as Prime Minister other than David Cameron, and if people spend their time thinking about some of this stuff, then they are getting in the way of two things: one, a fair, open, fact-based referendum debate; and two, the Conservative government continuing afterwards in a stable and secure fashion.
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Top Michael Gove Quotes And Sayings
Good schools should be left alone.
Michael Gove
Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won’t.
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When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.
Michael Gove
The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.
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Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.
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There wasn’t a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.
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