Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes

I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

My university work was not central to my education.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

I did well in school and was able to excel in those areas where I knew I needed to be good at.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.