The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the book but also from chatting with other kids. It's a big impact. One of the curious things is that even when - and this we found from studies - the schools are doing pretty badly in terms of their education, about mathematics and literature and language, going to school transformed people because I think the action of schooling, the activity, is very important.
Amartya SenGlobalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. Itยs not that we donยt need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.
Amartya Senwe must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.
Amartya Sen[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
Amartya SenI think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the Buddhist countries, not only Japan and Korea and China and Hong Kong and Thailand but also even Burma and Sri Lanka, had a higher level of education.
Amartya SenI'ยm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesnยt always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.
Amartya SenThe elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own
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