It is no wonder Mr Gove's sparring partners, the former and current Labour education spokesmen Stephen Twigg and Tristram Hunt, have underwhelmed against him.
He has made some progress with this campaign, as both Labour's education spokesman, Tristram Hunt, and the current Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, supported it during the election campaign.
Andy Burnham, the party's education spokesman and former comprehensive pupil, blames the current government for setting schools and communities in competition with each other, and for fragmenting and segregating the entire education system.
Education spokesman Simon Thomas AM added that Plaid opposed the marketisation of education with competing qualification providers.
A Department for Education spokesman said evidence had disproved "the myth that pulling a child out of education for holidays is harmless to their education".
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Ministers are clear about the importance of PSHE (personal, social and health education) - that is why it remains part of pupils' education.
(He's the education spokesman).
The Liberal Democrat education spokesman David Laws visited the school last week.
Not as Labour's education spokesman, but from QMU.
The Lib Dem education spokesman and former banker, David Laws, will be chief secretary to the Treasury, leaving the position of education secretary to the Tory education spokesman, Michael Gove.
Should some current education costs be treated as "investment"?
