Amartya Sen
Economist and philosopher; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998
This was a co-educational school, with many progressive features. The emphasis was on fostering curiosity rather than competitive excellence, and any kind of interest in examination performance and grades was severely discouraged. ("She is quite a serious thinker," I remember one of my teachers telling me about a fellow student, "even though her grades are very good.") Since I was, I have to confess, a reasonably good student, I had to do my best to efface that stigma.
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Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1998
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