No Famine Has Ever Taken

Thailand's Economic Development Was Driven By Educational Expansion. That Has Been A Very Dramatic Factor, And South Asia Had Been Pretty Miserable In Not Learning From That Experience.

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 Sectarian Schooling Does Not Convert Education Into A Prison, Rather Than Being A Passport To The Wide World.

I Don’t Think That India Is Much Celebrated For Its Democracy. Democracy Has Been A Very Neglected Commodity At Home And Abroad.

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 One Of The Most Massive Wastes In The World, But Education Is [at The] Other End. It's The Bearer Of The Greatest Fruits That Mankind Has Ever Known.

When I Was Giving A Lecture In India, The Capabilities That I Have To Be Concerned With There, Namely The Ability Of People To Go To A School, To Be Literate, To Be Able To Have A Basic Health Care Everywhere, To Be Able To Seek Some Kind Of Medical Response To One's Ailment; These Become Central Issues In The Indian Context Which They're Not In The Uk, Because You're Well Beyond That.