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"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world."
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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"Experience is a sacred education."
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"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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"Keep reading, Keep learning."
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"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"Learn how to learn...then start learning."
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"The Kingdom of God should be the main goal of our financial investments."
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"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world."
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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
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"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
Creativity

"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."
Health

"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
College

"It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work."
Friendship

"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
Life

"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."
Economy
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