Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neg….

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming ov….

If jobs are important, education is important..

I have not had any serious non-academic job..

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and the….

There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more….

Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kin….

The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neg….

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970..

One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classe….

Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in re….

The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, a….

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another..

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit f….

Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our ….

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice..

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that the….

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements….

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the ….

Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may ha….