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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 but trying to educate others. And I could see how the lives of children could be transformed in that.
Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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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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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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The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.
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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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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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Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.
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You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?
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Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.
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[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.
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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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Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
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I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.
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There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capabilityhaving adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.
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The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
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It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.
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We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.
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Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
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Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.
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Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.
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The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.
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