Conservative Party Conference: Michael Gove speech

Conservative Party Conference: Michael Gove speech; Gove speech SOT - Because one of the tragedies of the last ten years has been our failure to keep pace with the world's best education systems. We've fallen behind, dropped from 4th to 14th for science. Dropped from 7th to 17th for literacy. Dropped from 8th to 24th for mathematics. And at the same time the gap between rich and poor in our schools has widened ever further. In every school year there are 600,000 children. The very poorest are those eligible for free school meals - 80,000 in every year. And out of those 80,000 how many do you think make it to the best universities? Just 45. More children from one public school, Westminster, make it to the top universities than the entire population of poor boys and girls on this benefit. This waste of talent, this squandering of human potential, this grotesque failure to give all our fellow citizens an equal chance is a reproach to our conscience. It can't be allowed to continue. And under this coalition government that injustice will end. People sometimes ask me why I'm in such a hurry to change our education system. Slow down, they say. Opt for a gentler pace. You've got five years. Your reforms can be introduced all in good time. But children only have one chance. Five years for them is their entire life at secondary school. And I don't want to see another generation of poor children travel through school only to leave at the end without qualifications, without a place at college, without hope. I couldn't live with myself, if, having been given the chance to serve I put the enjoyment of office before the power to do good. So that is why every moment I have in this job, every day I do it, I won't stop pressing, pushing, fighting to give every child the chance to succeed. I can't rest when more than 800 primary schools can't even get half their children reading, writing and adding up properly. I can't rest when nearly 600 secondary schools can't get more than 35...
Conservative Party Conference: Michael Gove speech; Gove speech SOT - Because one of the tragedies of the last ten years has been our failure to keep pace with the world's best education systems. We've fallen behind, dropped from 4th to 14th for science. Dropped from 7th to 17th for literacy. Dropped from 8th to 24th for mathematics. And at the same time the gap between rich and poor in our schools has widened ever further. In every school year there are 600,000 children. The very poorest are those eligible for free school meals - 80,000 in every year. And out of those 80,000 how many do you think make it to the best universities? Just 45. More children from one public school, Westminster, make it to the top universities than the entire population of poor boys and girls on this benefit. This waste of talent, this squandering of human potential, this grotesque failure to give all our fellow citizens an equal chance is a reproach to our conscience. It can't be allowed to continue. And under this coalition government that injustice will end. People sometimes ask me why I'm in such a hurry to change our education system. Slow down, they say. Opt for a gentler pace. You've got five years. Your reforms can be introduced all in good time. But children only have one chance. Five years for them is their entire life at secondary school. And I don't want to see another generation of poor children travel through school only to leave at the end without qualifications, without a place at college, without hope. I couldn't live with myself, if, having been given the chance to serve I put the enjoyment of office before the power to do good. So that is why every moment I have in this job, every day I do it, I won't stop pressing, pushing, fighting to give every child the chance to succeed. I can't rest when more than 800 primary schools can't even get half their children reading, writing and adding up properly. I can't rest when nearly 600 secondary schools can't get more than 35...
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