At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

I want to give producers more financial security.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.