It's more than that with Gove, Alice.
He's an arrogant idealogue with a very clear idea of what he wants. When he was Education Secretary he just didn't listen to anybody and went ahead with what HE believed was right, even though people told him what the consequences would be. We're now seeing those consequences - academy chains with executives on £200,000+ salaries committing fraud, faith schools closed down for extremism, curriculum and exam changes which are damaging pupils' education, teachers leaving in droves, unqualified teachers (such as Lord Nash's daughter) writing curriculum plans, the purchase of whole schemes from America, etc etc. He was warned. Even Michael Wilshaw, the Head of Ofsted, warned him, but he called them the 'blob' - experts who know nothing.