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

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.

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.

If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

Young adults rebel against the pre-invented/ packaged world, but sooner or later they stop and they also become proponents of the tried and true.

Everywhere my feet have touched on this planet has been magic, why cant others see it this way?

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.