Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Gove said that England's education system was failing to keep up with other countries and that the White Paper 'shamelessly plunders the best ideas from the highest-performing education nations'.
He told MPs, 'We will reform our national curriculum so it is a benchmark we can use to measure ourselves against the world's best school systems, instead of a straitjacket which stifles the creativity of our best teachers.
'We will slim down a curriculum which has become over-loaded, over-prescriptive and over-bureaucratic by stripping out unnecessary clutter and simply specifying the core knowledge in strategic subjects which every child should know at each key stage. That will give great teachers more freedom to innovate and inspire.'
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