"Any attempt to force or structure learning in the under-fives actually backfires. It's like ripping open a rose to get it to bloom" - Steve Biddulph, an Australian educational psychologist and author, gives his take on the Early Years Foundation Stage
"A sad example of an indiscriminate and knee-jerk response to a perceived problem, which only deals at best with symptoms, not causes" - Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on the Mosquito device, which emits a high-pitched noise only audible to young people to deter them from gathering in public places
"There are going to be some real inequalities, which are almost impossible to defend beyond saying this is the luck of the draw" - Mike Tomlinson, former chief inspector at Ofsted, attacks the use of lotteries to decide school places.
