Development as Freedom

This time, my trip to Chennai was also a road trip. I got a ride with friends in the car, and it also gave us lots of time for conversation. As we were going to the convocation, the discussions turned to education and degrees. Though there are lots of folks dissing college education and degrees in the tech world. I thought that a college education and formal degrees have value. And to know its value, one should speak to someone who is the first graduate in the family and what kind of changes it brings. I think we all kind of agreed, and friend mentioned an article by Amartya Sen on education and human capability. I did find myself agreeing with the points and, hence, searched for that article, which led me to the book, Development as Freedom. I am reading it currently. I think it’s a valuable read. Also this take on the book by Denis O’Hearn on it’s tenth year of publication. The center of Sen’s vision is what he calls a ‘capability approach’, where the basic concern of human…