Amartya Sen Quotes

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

It is eminently proper that we also grant them opportunities of education not inferior to those available to our own children; that we encourage them to develop; that we foster men of genius in all walks of life, thereby increasing the resources of our country. And it is with this in view that I have made it possible for Formosans qualified in the Japanese language to enter schools for Japanese children. Excellent results have already been obtained, with incalculably good effect upon our policy of assimilation.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

… adult education should be made available … so that our less privileged groups may be able to avail themselves of new openings which require more education than they possess.

The greatest success of the Freedmen's Bureau lay in the planting of the free school among Negroes

I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.