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" As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools. "

" By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system. "

" Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France. "

" Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France. "

" Equality in education is my number one battle. "

" How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head? "

" I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left. "

" If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic. "

" I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots. "

" If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini. "

" I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read. "

" I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance. "

" I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children. "

" I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life. "

" Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries. "

" In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation. "

" Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not. "

" It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also. "

" It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other. "

" It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information. "

" It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon. "

" I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics. "

" I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education. "

" Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling. "

" My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies. "

" On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively. "

" Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing? "

" People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore. "

" Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable. "

" Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. "

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