Author: Johann Lamont

Quotes

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

- Johann Lamont

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

- Johann Lamont

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

- Johann Lamont

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

- Johann Lamont

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

- Johann Lamont

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

- Johann Lamont

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

- Johann Lamont

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

- Johann Lamont

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

- Johann Lamont

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