Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! – Matthew Arnold
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. – Matthew Arnold
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