Education ideas for the future

I particularly enjoyed Michael Gove's speech today which offered the country radical new ideas for government. I thought this phrase in his speech worthy of repeating; "We desperately need good schools in every neighbourhood. We want a new generation of independent state schools funded by taxpayers but run by teachers and responsible to parents, not micromanaged by politicians. That is the way to give parents what they want – smaller schools with smaller classes, good behaviour, great teachers and restored confidence in the curriculum."