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"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."

Michael Gove on Education

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    Nelson Mandela on Education

  • "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

    Albert Einstein on Education

  • "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

    Aristotle on Education

  • "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

    Maya Angelou on Education

  • "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

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More quotes by Michael Gove

  • "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."

  • "The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter."

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