"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."

"What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads."

"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."

"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."

"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

"Wisdom principle 25 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 37."

"What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it."

"Wisdom principle 18 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 1."