Shakuntala Devi

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.