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There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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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.
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Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
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Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
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Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
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Democracy is a universal value
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But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
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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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Poverty is not just a lack of money it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
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Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
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Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in reducing fertility is girls' education.
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[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.
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Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
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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 living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.
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The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
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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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the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
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Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.
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If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.
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When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.
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