I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
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![“In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d53/amartya-sen-2518_basic-education_in-absolutely-every-way-our-lives-are-tr_692103.jpg)
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![“[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if it took a similar interest in education, it could make a difference.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ce4/amartya-sen-2518_deals_the-usa-has-been-immensely-successful-in_2642045.jpg)
![“I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d15/amartya-sen-2518_asian_i-think-east-asian-countries-i-think-the_2344083.png)
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![“After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e6d/amartya-sen-2518_american-public_after-all-the-american-society-has-been_2845497.png)
![“In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So I think there has been a kind of dual presence of…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2dd/amartya-sen-2518_able_in-india-in-the-great-documents-like-the_2479950.jpg)
![“Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b62/amartya-sen-2518_areas_even-in-areas-like-the-most-depressed-re_1551003.jpg)
![“There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ca9/amartya-sen-2518_education_there-s-absolutely-no-reason-why-at-the_3169801.jpg)
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