Michael Gove
Michael Gove
Michael Goveis a British Conservative politician, who was Secretary of State for Education from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of State for Justice from 2015 to 2016. He has been the Member of Parliamentfor Surrey Heath since 2005. He is also an author and was a columnist for The Times...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 August 1967
teacher children important
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.
sympathy children empathy
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.
years geek tragic
For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
order needs guarantees
We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.
teacher children teaching
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
dad fishing scotland
The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.
nhs important want
Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
party able conservative
I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.
perfection trying world
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
teacher thinking has-beens
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
teacher different bigs
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.
expectations horizon different
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.
teacher government discipline
When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.
order unions migration
In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.