I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

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.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

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.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

Have we forgotten the laws of God?

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.