Quote by Michael Gove
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is

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

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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

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Education
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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. – Michael Gove

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

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respect
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I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether its a dance step, a scene, an emotion. – Kenny Wormald

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Learning

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didnt think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Learning

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man. – Kenny Loggins

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Learning

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing

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Learning

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I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. – Marissa Mayer

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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. – Ron Paul

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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. – Henri Nouwen

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God

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. – Samuel Johnson

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Attitude