Many more schools can be outstanding.

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.

....because of all the things in this world that can hurt you and knock you down, I will never be one of them.

‘Eighth one this week, ’ he said.

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

I am the self-consumer of my woes.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.