As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.
I want people to be the authors of their own life story.
We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.
A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.
I put my country and my principles first.
The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.
I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.
I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.
I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.
If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.
I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great.
There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.
People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope.
I can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.
I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.
Good schools should be left alone.
Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.
The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.
Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.
