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" 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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" 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

Failure

Children

Best

" The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. "

" I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state. "

" Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life. "

" The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. "

" The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country. "

Michael Gove

Decision

Hands

" I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights. "

" The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front. "

" There aren't many contemporary Christian leaders who are both energetic in their condemnation of the crimes of communism and robust in their analysis of the evil of Islamism, but Justin Welby stands out. "

" Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control. "

" Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union. "

" One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. "

" 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. "

" It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. "

" I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union. "

" In my view, our immigration policy means that we have some people who can come into this country - who we might want to say no to - and others, who we might want to attract, who can't currently come in. "

" We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong. "

" There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity. "

" People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself. "

" My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers; we will have control over money we send to the European Union. We will have control over our own laws, and as a result, we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us. "

" The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them. "

Michael Gove

Say

Think

" There are all sorts of people who will say disobliging things about me. I don't mind that. I would rather people said, 'This is a man that sticks to his principles, not a man who's worried about popularity.' "

Michael Gove

Man

Mind

" 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. "

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

" 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. "