3 December 2020 Michael Gove I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Gove 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Gove The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.
3 December 2020 Michael Gove 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Gove 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.
3 December 2020 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.
