Michael Andrew Gove (born 26 August 1967) is a British politician, who is the Secretary of State for Education and the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the Surrey Heath constituency, an author and former journalist on the Murdoch-owned newspaper “The Times” (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove ).
Michael Gove, UK Education Secretary, on social segregation in the UK (2012): “[Re] the breadth and the depth of private school dominance… more than almost any developed nation ours is a country in which your parentage dictates your progress . . . For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.” [1].
[1]. Michael Gove, quoted in Jason Cowley, “Editor’s note on 21st century Educational Apartheid, the new few and weird weather”, New Statesman, 16 May 2012: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/05/editor%E2%80%99s-note .