Michael Gove Quotes

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.

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

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.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

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.

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.

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

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.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

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?'

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

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.

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.

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.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

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.

I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom, which I hope can provide unity and change.

I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

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

Many more schools can be outstanding.

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.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

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.

Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

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.

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

I think that the message I have of optimism and hope about Britain's bright future outside the European Union is shared by many Conservative members and voters - indeed by a majority of the country.

We have a unique chance to heal divisions, give everyone a stake in the future and set an example as the most creative, innovative and progressive country in the world.

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.