The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Michael Gove
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- What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
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