Unfortunately the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

I was in fashion school my brother has a law background and my sister-in-law had worked in production but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

In Mexico theater is very underground so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class race time place background family and even his nation.

My background was computer science and business school so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development testing marketing user education.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

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.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

When your dreams tire they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.