People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.Rate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)Say it

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)

US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - )

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