Contemporary Quote by Amartya Sen

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

— Amartya Sen

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

— Amartya Sen

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 on fertility.…

— Amartya Sen

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

— Joseph de Maistre

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

— Jane Goodall

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids…

— Frederick Busch

A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently…

— Mother Mary Francis P.C.C

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has…

— Edward Weston

“Society frowns upon candidness, except in privacy; good sense knows that it can always be abused; and the Child fears it because of the…

— Eric Berne

Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective…

— Piet Zwart

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which…

— Carl Jung

If you really do want to increase women's status, you could focus on just that, but you'd probably better focus also on women's education.…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our selves worthy…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what…

— Jonathan Swift