Children Quotes by Amartya Sen

9 Children quotes by Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen’s nine concise reflections on children distill his economic and philosophical expertise into clear, human‑focused ideas about welfare, opportunity, and future potential.

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China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the…

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There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

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I guess some of the most delightful moments of my teenage years were when I was trying not just to educate myself…

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If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make…

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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…

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I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education…

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Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that…

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Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread…

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Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the…

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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…

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Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects…

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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up…

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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

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I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people…

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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

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To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have…

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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

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We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content…

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“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…

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One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned…

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

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If jobs are important, education is important.

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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…

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