They said it in September

"Schools and colleges are seen as transit camps in the workplace, instead of incubators for transformation of the individual. This has resulted in a closing not only of the human mind but more significantly, a closing of the human heart…. An education that ignores moral and spiritual values cannot qualify as a quality education."
Lata Vaidyanathan, principal of Modern School, Delhi, on what ails Indian school education (The Times of India, September 5)

"There has been no significant investment in education and governments only spend a token amount on it."
Karnataka governor H.R Bharadwaj at the golden jubilee celebrations of the M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore (September 8)

"The fact that Bihar also has a lot of economic problems including persistent poverty, makes it even more necessary for the new Nalanda to offer educational opportunities for the useful arts (such as information technology, environmental studies and management), without undermining the more abstract investigations."
Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and chairman of the interim governing board of Nalanda University, Bihar (The Hindu, September 19)

"How do people make half a million rupees a day while in office? Remember most of them made the greatest additions to their wealth while ‘serving’ the public. Surely we are owed answers on this. Mere disclosure of wealth is not enough. If it is so grotesq-uely large, we need to know how it was made."
Well-known journalist P. Sainath analysing the officially declared assets of Union cabinet ministers (The Hindu, September 21)

"We will start singing bhajans in front of houses of those Parliament members who are opposing such a nice bill which can improve the country."
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on the proposed Jana Lokpal Bill (India Today, September 26)

"The horns have sounded and the hounds are baying. Across the developed world the hunt for more taxes from the wealthy is on."
Editorial in The Economist (September 24-30)