“There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.” KindIdeasIdentityAll KindsClosing Author:Amartya Sen
“In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.” WayKindDifferentOur LivesEffectsVariousAll Kinds Author:Amartya Sen
“When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.” PeopleGivingWellsKindCareAbleSchoolAbilityIssuesConcernedIndiaResponseMedicalHealth CareIndianCapabilityLecturesAilments Author:Amartya Sen
“It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I dont really expect any credit for going in that direction. Its the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people dont see that as so patently obvious as it should be?” PeopleShouldKindSeemsNaturalIssuesObviousGenderCreditBe KindGender Equality Author:Amartya Sen
“I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.” WorldBelieveKindProblemI BelieveInequality Author:Amartya Sen
“I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].” ThinkingHumansKindLongWholeProblemRolesPositionLong TimeModelsGenderInequalityRole ModelsInferiorsHuman SocietyGender InequalityGreat Role ModelsPlaying Up Author:Amartya Sen
“In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So I think there has been a kind of dual presence of pain, respect, and saying you are great, etc., but not providing the basic facilities that make women able to lead the kind of life that they would like to and that men easily do.” ThinkingMenKindHas BeensAblePainGirlCenturySpeechWorshipIndiaEtcProvidingDocumentsFacilityWisest Author:Amartya Sen
“Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so.” MenWayShouldKindChildrenCountryReasonFactsPastDealsGreaterGenerationsPeriodsDemandIncomeBreadInequalityOne WayReason WhyNo ReasonRoughPregnancyRemedyAnother Woman Author:Amartya Sen
“There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business. Japan is a very good example of that. You might find cases in the United States where at one level women's equality has progressed tremendously. You don't have the kind of problem of higher women's mortality as you see in South Asia, North Africa, and East Asia, China, too, and yet for American women there are some fields in which equality hasn't yet come.” KindMayCountryStatesProblemMightLevelsUnitedCasesUnited StatesExampleFieldsHigherSouthVery GoodChinaGenderEastInequalityJapanMortalityAsiaSchoolingHigher EducationGood ExamplesAmerican WomanGender InequalityNorth AfricaSouth AsiaEast Asia Author:Amartya Sen
“I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.” ThinkingWorldKindRealReasonHelpingHumanityCan DoMajorsConcernNegativeImpactPopulationExpandingArmament Author:Amartya Sen
“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.” IfsWorldWayHumansKindStillsSocialHuman BeingsOur LivesEconomicEffectsSecurityDevelopmentJudgmentMajorsImpactGenderPrioritiesAll KindsTransformedEquityEconomic Development Author:Amartya Sen
“The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.” ThinkingWayKindFactsSchoolChristianHumanityOpportunityReligiousViewsSeeingOne ThingIdentityCivilizationAll KindsBuddhistJust OneClashCultural IdentityNational IdentityClash Of CivilizationsReligious Identity Author:Amartya Sen
“In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.” WayKindLevelsMistakeOur LivesParticularPrioritiesTransformedBasic Education Author:Amartya Sen
“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.” PeopleShouldBelieveHumansKindGivenAttentionShould HaveDespiteHuman LifeMassiveTransforming Author:Amartya Sen
