After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of succes….

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot..

There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go….

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror..

I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a ….

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty.

The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the ov….

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family..

There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you ….

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well..

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly..

I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior p….

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating..

In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms….

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy..

I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments, I blame th….

Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's ….

Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which ….

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, b….

The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathemat….

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic….