The Student Community Of Presidency

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.

One Has To Be Realistic. One’s Concern For Equity And Justice In The World Must Not Carry One Into The Alien Territory Of Unreasoned Belief. That’s Very Important.

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.

Sometimes The Lack Of Substantive Freedoms Relates Directly To Economic Poverty, Which Robs People Of The Freedom To Satisfy Hunger; Or To Achieve Sufficient Nutrition, Or To Obtain Remedies For Treatable Illnesses Or The Opportunity To Be Adequatley Clothed Or Sheltered, Or To Enjoy Clean Water Or Sanitary Facilities.

There May Be Countries [where] There's No Gender Inequality In Schooling, Even In Higher Education, But [where There Is] Gender Inequality In High Business. Japan Is A Very Good Example Of That. You Might Find Cases In The United States Where At One Level Women's Equality Has Progressed Tremendously. You Don't Have The Kind Of Problem Of Higher Women's Mortality As You See In South Asia, North Africa, And East Asia, China, Too, And Yet For American Women There Are Some Fields In Which Equality Hasn't Yet Come.