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Mihai Dimian urges students not to give up on education, recalling how he supported himself at university

From Adevărul · () Romanian

Translated from Romanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Romanian Education Minister Mihai Dimian urged students to value school and continue their education despite difficulties, in a message marking the first day of the new school year.
  • Dimian said students begin life with unequal access to books, computers and study space, but argued that education can help them overcome those disadvantages.
  • He recalled working as a tour guide and tutoring mathematics and physics during university before pursuing study and research abroad and becoming a professor and doctoral supervisor in Washington, D.C.

“The place you start from does not determine where you can end up,” Education Minister Mihai Dimian told Romanian students as the new school year began.

Dear students, enjoy your education!

· Mihai DimianOpening of his message to students on the first day of the new school year.

In a message addressed to students, parents and teachers, Dimian acknowledged that many students may have wished for a longer holiday or may question the value of school. He urged them instead to see education as an opportunity that can change their future and to appreciate their teachers, classmates and school.

The minister emphasized that students do not begin life with equal resources. Some have more books at home, their own desk and a computer, while others lack even a quiet place to do their homework. Those differences, he said, make school essential because education can give children a chance to move beyond the circumstances into which they were born.

The place you start from does not determine where you can end up.

· Mihai DimianHis message about unequal starting conditions and the role of education.

Dimian used his own life as an example. He said he came from a modest family and worked as a tour guide and as a mathematics and physics tutor while studying at university so he could support himself. Education later enabled him to study and conduct research in France, Germany and the United States, and to become a professor and doctoral supervisor in Washington, D.C.

Education is the key that opens the gate to this world. A world much larger than the place where you were born, a world where opportunities await that you cannot imagine.

· Mihai DimianHis description of education as a path beyond students’ initial circumstances.

He warned students that learning would sometimes be difficult, whether they were trying to understand concepts, remember information or complete assignments. They did not need to be the best in their class, he said, but they should not give up on their own development. “Your place is at school, every day,” he wrote, ending with an appeal to look toward the sky, understand that there are no limits and find a guiding star for their dreams.

I am not telling you that you have to be the best in the class. I am only telling you not to give up on yourselves.

· Mihai DimianHis advice to students facing academic difficulties or criticism.
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Originally published by Adevărul in Romanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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