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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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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Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life. – Michael Gove

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Learning
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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

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Leadership
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I cant do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability. – Ann Bancroft

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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. – Antisthenes

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Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements. – John Sexton

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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