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The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

What you have in most education software is that they are catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

But I did not really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and do not enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I did not really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and do not enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

Maybe it is a tired tale, but without an education, you are not going to go anywhere.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

In more than 20 years I have spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we did not have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.