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Opinion: Quotes of the Week

"They walk around in their pinstripe suits and clutching their mobile phones. It's quite frightening" - Tony Storey, the soon-to-retired head teacher of Hayfield School in Doncaster, on the new breed of heads being trained by the National College for School Leadership

"We might be wrong but at every stage we found that what holds children back was not them but us" - Julian Grenier, head teacher at Kate Greenaway Nursery, says using stabilisers holds back children when they are learning to cycle

"If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large" - Gary Pugh, DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers, calls for primary school children to be added to the national DNA database so the police can identify potential criminals early.

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