'Learning to read or to write one's name at three is not necessarily an indication of future academic potential. Einstein didn't learn to read until he was seven' Sue Mardel, primary inspector for...
'Isn't it time we gave our children time for fun?' Angela Elliott of Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire, after being told by a friend she was withdrawing her three-year-old son from his nursery because...
'Ultimately we rely on the care and professionalism of the staff to educate and protect our children. But why not let them use the tools offered by modern technology to do this as well as possible?'...
'Some (inspectors) have actually begun to develop self-help strategies ... such as a poetry group in the south who are writing poems about how they have developed strategies to cope with lap-tops'...
'By rescuing children who would otherwise die, we have far more kids alive with amputations. Even kids who don't end up with brain damage often end up with some softer intellectual damage such as...
'As an eight-year-old he was getting up to 60mph. When he won the world cup in 2000 he was getting up to 90mph. Now he's racing at 150 to 160mph' Anthony Hamilton, whose son Lewis, at 18, is the...
'The working families credit system may have been a good idea, but the parents here are going through hell trying to get what they are entitled to. The whole thing has been a fiasco and the parents...
'The workforce reform agenda is not about undermining professionals but about supporting a new form of professionalism. That is our commitment and we want to work with you to achieve it' Education...
'My daughter felt under so much pressure that she used to wake up with nightmares about the tests.' Parent Suzanne Munza at the launch of a national campaign, Stop the SATS, against the school tests...
'I know that I share with the First Minister the determination to close the gap and to give every child the same opportunities to realise their full potential. That means a focus on the pre-school...