Sporting CULTURE is needed where MARKS are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are WILLING to SUPPORT them through ROUGH times.

In terms of my involvement in 'don't ASK, don't TELL' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional LEARNING in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the WORLD and with my fans.

I COME from a very CLOSE class. I lucked out because DRAMA schools are OFTEN very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

When SCHOOLS FLOURISH, all flourishes.

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get EXCITED about - that will MAKE them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why PEOPLE get excited about READING.'

I don't think about the gender thing very MUCH. But when I SPEAK at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a DIRECTOR, since I've never seen WOMEN do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves DIRECTING, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

I've been in DANCE SCHOOLS since I was four. I went to the Brit SCHOOL. I did adverts and PLAYS.

I have no PROBLEMS with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are USEFUL and we often use PUBLIC funds to pay for their infrastructures and other COMMON NEEDS.

There is always frustration from people who work in schools that THINGS KEEP CHANGING but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change.

Very few charter SCHOOLS are being created in some of the best SCHOOL districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the GREATEST NEED is.

When you're fund-raising for schools, then SOMETHING's wrong. We seem to have LOST some SORT of sense of what the common GOOD is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.

Letting a hundred flowers BLOSSOM and a hundred SCHOOLS of thought contend is the POLICY for promoting the progress of the arts and the SCIENCES and a flourishing culture in our LAND.

It was very CLEAR to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a LAWYER, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have FOOD, didn't have jobs, didn't have health CARE, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not GOING to have success.

Some people need a targeted kind of learning. They need a DIFFERENT APPROACH, like charter SCHOOLS. There are virtual classrooms that some will do well in. The reality is, if there are no options, if there is just one particular standard, then SOMEONE is going to fall through the cracks, as we've seen.

I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm SURE most PEOPLE THINK women should be paid the same as MEN if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we MADE that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.