Shakuntala Devi

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.