Michael Gove 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

Time, Teacher, Important

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
Michael Gove

Children, Parents, Long

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.
Michael Gove

Learning, Sympathy, Children

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.
Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.
Michael Gove

Successful, Often, Criticism

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
Michael Gove

Life, Home, Heart

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
Michael Gove

Means, Since, Debt

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
Michael Gove

Respect, Quite, Teachers

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.
Michael Gove

Clear, Happening, Improve

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
Michael Gove

Trying, Stop, Won

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
Michael Gove

Learning, Brain, Makes

Many more schools can be outstanding.
Michael Gove

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
Michael Gove

School, Children, Long

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
Michael Gove

History, Children, Culture

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

School, Control, Keep

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Michael Gove

Knowledge, Social, Key

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'
Michael Gove

Home, Book, Find

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, Means, Liberal

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, Men, Best

At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.
Michael Gove

Power, Give, Moment

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
Michael Gove

Life, Learning, School

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

Different, Starting, Academics

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, Children, Parents

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

Once, Clarity, Authority

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.
Michael Gove

Everyone, Youth, Situation

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Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: August 26, 1967

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