Amartya Sen Quotes About Literacy

Quotes about: Literacy

• Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

  Amartya Sen

  Teacher, Educational, Parent

• There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Literacy, Mortality

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.195, Anchor

• When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Awards, India

• The 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

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research (1997). “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives”, p.5, Oxford University Press

• we 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

  Education, Fighting, Goes On

• There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.

  Amartya Sen

  Strong, Empowerment, India

• 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.

  Amartya Sen

  Girl, School, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

• South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan, they determined they were going in that direction. In 20 years' time, they had transformed themselves. So when people go on saying that it's all because of perennial culture, which you cannot change, that's not the way the South Korean economy was viewed before the war ended. But again within 30 years, people went on saying there's an ancient culture in Korea that has been pro-education, which is true.

  Amartya Sen

  War, Japan, Korea

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

  Amartya Sen

  Buddhism, Sri Lanka, Levels

  Source: www.pbs.org

• South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Thinking, Korea

  Source: www.pbs.org

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