Amartya Sen Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

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

  Amartya Sen

  Teacher, Educational, Parent

• Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's life will go much better by being educated. And that applies to girls as well as boys.

  Amartya Sen

  Girl, Children, Latin

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Children, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

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