Azim Premji Foundation CEO: How schools can help build a more humane world for everyone
Having believed the myth of the primacy of self-interest and power of rationality, we built a world that amplifies it. The market rewards self-interest and calculation. In a study of Israeli daycare centres, a fine on parents who came late to pick-up their children made lateness rise, not fall. It turned an obligation to the teacher into a price. Goodness, equally inherent in us, is left to fend for itself. What then?
