Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
– Johann Lamont
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
– Johann Lamont
I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.
– 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.