The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility but short of winning the lottery the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives as shown in the following stories.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives little stories. I thought 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate move and inspire.

Somehow knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories to think through certain issues as only a novel can do to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family about life about death.

All stories interest me and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice loyalty violence death political and social issues freedom.

Madame all stories if continued far enough end in death and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.