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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. "

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. "

" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "

" I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle. "

" I put my country and my principles first. "

" You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? "

" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "

" Good schools should be left alone. "

" My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them. "

" At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. "

" I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests. "

" My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. "

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