Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

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

Equality in education is my number one battle.

We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

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.