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Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.

Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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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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I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.
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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 be made compulsory.
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