Famous 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."

Michael Gove on Time

More quotes about Time

• "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

  Roger Babson on Time

• "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

  Abraham Lincoln on Time

• "Lost time is never found again."

  Benjamin Franklin on Time

• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

  Jean de La Fontaine on Time

• "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

  C. S. Lewis on Time

More quotes by Michael Gove

• "What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads."

• "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."

• "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."

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