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.

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.

Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it.

The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you.

In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

I'm NOT lost, they just moved my street.

I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.