Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

So what it boils down to in my humble opinion is that we need to support the arts in schools and at every other level in the education of children.

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

We're failing our children with education we're failing our environment.

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 hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education urban education women and children's issues and literacy.

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family there's lots of children seven brothers two sisters grew up together fighting with each other went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.