Politicians should be judged on actions not words, we should show that we're making a difference rather than simply telling everyone how important it is to change.

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.

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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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I think that the people of Great Britain have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying - from organisations with acronyms - saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong, because these people - these people - are the same ones who got consistently wrong.

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Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

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For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek by Michael Gove

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

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I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least anot... by Michael Gove

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

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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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I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

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I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. by Michael Gove

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

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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.

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It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. by Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

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Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.

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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.

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The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

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You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers 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.

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The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.

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They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

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The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

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The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

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Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

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