In 20 10, Michael Gove, then the British Minister of Education, wrote in the Daily Telegraph that he would launch a "cultural revolution" in English classes. At that time, he said that the government had been dealing with the economic and social crisis with grand and detailed plans when the opponents could not say any policies.

Nothing needs reform more than education. He said: "We can't waste time when our students are far behind in the competition for enrollment and employment opportunities in top universities."

Goff described his trip to China as "learning from the classics". While visiting a school in Beijing, he received a thick book with many Chinese characters and strange English paragraphs written on it. At first, he thought it was a textbook. When he learned that it was a bound volume of research papers published in academic journals, his reaction was: "If your teachers regularly publish new papers in university journals, they must be qualified."

China students told him that it was not the teacher's homework, but the homework of primary and secondary school students. Goff said that he also saw a similar situation in Singapore. Therefore, he believes that the education level of students in schools in the Far East is higher than that in Britain.