Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.

I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

The teachers are being screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system and the government doesn’t seem to care.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.