The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

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.

We need God-great grace in all spheres of life.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

The only woman I'd ever wanna marry just broke my heart.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Winner knows nothing about food.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.