- Title: INDIA: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan feels education is 'the base for everything'
- Date: 21st May 2010
- Summary: MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (MAY 20, 2010) (ANI) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) BOLLYWOOD ACTOR AAMIR KHAN SITTING ONSTAGE WITH EXECUTIVES OF 'FORBES' MAGAZINE KHAN SITTING REPORTERS GUESTS SITTING KHAN UNVEILING THE 'FORBES' FIRST ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE KHAN POSING WITH THE MAGAZINE REPORTERS KHAN SITTING ON THE DAIS AAMIR KHAN (SOUNDBITE) (English) AAMIR KHAN, BOLLYWOOD ACTOR, SAYING: "For me, education is the big idea. I think that it's the base for everything. When I say education, I mean education for all. When I say education, I also mean not just teaching the children any one particular subject but allowing them to bloom, allowing and recognizing the uniqueness of each child, and helping each and every child to blossom�������to empower children, and that is what I mean by education." REPORTERS CAMERAMEN (SOUNDBITE) (English) AAMIR KHAN, BOLLYWOOD ACTOR, SAYING: "India is a vast country and I know it is not easy but that will be the big change. I think when every child in India gets education and a certain quality of education�������what I mean by quality is really the kind of teachers we have or the kind of teaching we do. For that, it is up to us, how much value as a society we give to teaching and if we give a lot of value to teaching, then the teaching will also improve." CAMERAPERSONS AAMIR KHAN STANDING ON THE DAIS KHAN INTERACTING WITH THE GUESTS KHAN GIVING AUTOGRAPHS CAMERAMEN CAMERAMEN TAKING PICTURES OF AAMIR KHAN
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- Country: India
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- Story Text: Top Bollywood actor Aamir Khan says that education is the base for everything and should be accessible to everyone.
Top Bollywood actor Aamir Khan says that education is the base for everything and should be accessible to everyone, at an event to launch the special anniversary issue of Forbes magazine in India's Mumbai city on Thursday (May 20).
"For me, education is the big idea. I think that it's the base for everything. When I say education, I mean education for all. When I say education, I also mean not just teaching the children any one particular subject but allowing them to bloom, allowing and recognizing the uniqueness of each child, and helping each and every child to blossom�������to empower children, and that is what I mean by education," said Khan.
The actor even said that the biggest change in the country would occur only when each and every child in the country would receive education and an improved quality of teaching.
"India is a vast country and I know it is not easy but that will be the big change. I think when every child in India gets education and a certain quality of education�������what I mean by quality is really the kind of teachers we have, or the kind of teaching we do. For that, it is up to us, how much value as a society we give to teaching and if we give a lot of value to teaching, then the teaching will also improve," added Khan.
The 44-year-old actor himself could only study till 12th standard, and quit education to make films. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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