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Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground bec

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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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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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

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

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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. – Christopher Hitchens

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. – Alan Perlis

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We cant get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we cant just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. – Barack Obama

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. – Richard Cobden

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