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Michael Gove
British
Politician
Born:
Aug 26
,
1967
Believe
Me
People
Think
Will
You
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Too many people go to university.
Michael Gove
People
Too Many People
Too
Go
Many
University
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
Education
Future
Best
Needs
Failure
Culture
Battle
People
Cursing
Low Expectations
Thought
Men
Long
Relevant
Has-Been
Future Generations
More
Joined
Written
Generations
Excuses
Mister
Because
Access
Making
Been
Denying
Expectations
Children
Low
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.
Michael Gove
Low Expectations
Those
Horizons
Invested
Academics
Narrow
Expectations
Different
Which
Regime
Low
Created
Premise
Who
Starting
I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain.
Michael Gove
Brother-In-Law
Spain
Who
Lives
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
Michael Gove
Respect
Think
Rightly
Has-Been
More
More And More
Been
Accorded
Quite
Teachers
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.
Michael Gove
Life
Opportunity
Will
Job
Live
Others
Our
Also
Sort
Leave
Imprint
Just
Want
Choose
Profession
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.
Michael Gove
Education
Achievement
Secretaries
Those
Exams
Devalued
Like
Know
Became
Because
Tractor
Real
Praising
Were
Labor
Soviet
Achievements
Children
Unfortunately
Production
Ground
Measures
Figures
Deserve
One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.
Michael Gove
Control
One Thing
Able
Support
Undeniable
Continue
Going
Migration
Thing
Need
Numbers
I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves.
Michael Gove
Me
Trust
Trust Me
Public
Themselves
Asking
The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.
Michael Gove
You
People
Thank You
Backing
Out
Remain
Well
Campaign
Very
Thank
Done
Union
Who
European
European Union
Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.
Michael Gove
World
Benefits
South Africa
Way
India
Brought
Democratic
Self-Government
Korea
Making
South
Scores
South Korea
Nations
Norway
Africa
Japan
Switzerland
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Michael Gove
Knowledge
Key
Cultural
Mobility
Accumulate
Social
Capital
Acquisition
A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.
Michael Gove
Together
Opportunity
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Tories
More
Only
Environmentally
Schools
Sort
Democrats
Reform
Golden
Sensitive
Create
Means
Coalition
Planning
Homes
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.
Michael Gove
Class
School
Control
Colleague
Know
Affects
Interest
Themselves
Teachers
Who
Whole
Keep
I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.
Michael Gove
Our
Clear
Schools
Improve
Happening
Need
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.
Michael Gove
Think
Appropriate
Once
Once More
Clarify
Clarity
More
Invested
Simplify
Instead
Authority
Teachers
Strengthen
One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
Michael Gove
Day
School
Problems
Long
Year
Enough
One Of The Problems
Children
It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.
Michael Gove
People
Criticism
Case
Invite
Often
Successful
Successful People
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
Michael Gove
Me
World
Achieve
Will
Never
Perfection
Fallen
Trying
Suspect
Stop
Many more schools can be outstanding.
Michael Gove
More
Outstanding
Schools
Many
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
Michael Gove
Time
School
Master
Before
Inclusive
Spend
Critical
Through
Environment
Schooling
Attractive
Learn
Arrive
Where
Children
Formal
Social
Warm
Skills
Prepare
Social Skills
Play
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.
Michael Gove
Love
Me
Youth
Parents
Every
Way
Would
Having
Point
Pick
Support
Stumbled
Most
Fell
Ready
Been
Up
Childhood
Children
I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.
Michael Gove
Believe
Trusting
Professionals
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.
Michael Gove
Future
Time
Science
People
Problems
Computer Science
Past
Young
Think
Changing
Has-Been
One Of The Problems
About
Something
Computer
Had
Written
Talking
How
Scientists
Been
Subject
Fits
Curriculum
In The Past
Experts
Young People
Should
Coding
Need
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.
Michael Gove
Education
Trust
Big
Before
Approach
Taking
Heads
Shift
Different
Happened
Which
Teachers
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
Michael Gove
Law
Abandonment
Slow
Our
Lies
Seem
Greater
Traditions
May
Hanging
Common
Common Law
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