There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.
Amartya SenBut the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Amartya SenTo conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.
Amartya SenImparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
Amartya SenThere is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
Amartya Sen