It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers. – Michael Gove
My sister and I know our lives could have been different – radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different – if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother’s arms brings. – Michael Gove
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
There wasn’t a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. – Michael Gove
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
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. – Michael Gove
I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union. – Michael Gove
I think the depressing litany of projections about World War Three and global Brexit recession we hear from the Remain side is not the sort of approach we should take into the future. – Michael Gove
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
The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. – Michael Gove
The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front. – Michael Gove
The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union. – Michael Gove
The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. – Michael Gove
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
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
Don’t belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union. – 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
What’s a fact is that we give more than รด?350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week. – Michael Gove
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. – Michael Gove
Traditional Anglicans – whether in Nigeria or Nottingham – have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society. – 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. – Michael Gove
