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 ….

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectaria….

I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's on….

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends..

Empowering women is key to building a future we want.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity..

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings..

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?.

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 ….

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

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

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….

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve su….

Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [….

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else..

The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the book but also from cha….

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering s….

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school….

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one countr….

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swal….

The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arran….