I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality in freedom of speech and in tolerance compassion and understanding for people irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

And my career the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

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.

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.

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Obviously I come from one background and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years and they know what works and doesn't work.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death not youth.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

My father came from a very poor background but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had a better shot at a better life.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.