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Michael Gove Quotes

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

– Michael Gove

In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

– Michael Gove

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

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

– Michael Gove

Too many people go to university.

– Michael Gove

I’m one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.

– Michael Gove

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

– Michael Gove

The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.

– Michael Gove

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

– Michael Gove

I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.

– Michael Gove

There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.

– Michael Gove

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

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

The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and – I would hope – that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters.

– Michael Gove

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

– Michael Gove

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

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

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

It’s the invincible arrogance of Europe’s elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.

– Michael Gove

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

– Michael Gove

The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

– Michael Gove

I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.

– Michael Gove

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

– Michael Gove

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

– Michael Gove

I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.

– Michael Gove

I put my country and my principles first.

– Michael Gove

It’s often the case that successful people invite criticism.

– Michael Gove

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

Good schools should be left alone.

– Michael Gove

What I think is wrong is spending ô?9m of taxpayers’ money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

– Michael Gove

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