06/06/2012 Speech by President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the students of Nazarbayev University
Date: 2015-05-13 09:06:35
Dear teachers and students!
Our university has just started his journey. But it creates its own, high by international standards, the standard of education and research. It formed its own system of education and research values and traditions.
For it now focuses not only Kazakhstan undergraduate community, but our whole system of education. A few years ago when we were just beginning to plan and build your university, we wanted it to be a best Kazakhstani university.
Needed a new high school. University leader with a new mentality, which would become the prototype of the Kazakhstan high school XXI century. So there was this unique university, which I agreed to give his name.
Dear Students
One of the slogans of Harvard University says that "education for life is not an option but an absolute necessity." Therefore, quality education that you get is just a start of intellectual capital. You need to constantly work on themselves, improve their education, professional competence. According to the German philosopher Georg Simmel, "educated people - is the one who knows where to find what he does not know."
I encourage you to develop a comprehensive, sports, art, learning foreign languages, understand the deep legacy of Russian and world literature, which can not replace the Internet.
You all have to remember that a decent life, well-being, to achieve a new quality of life are given only through labor.
