Education Can Really Transform The Insecurities In

When The Nobel Award Came My Way, It Also Gave Me An Opportunity To Do Something Immediate And Practical About My Old Obsessions, Including Literacy, Basic Health Care And Gender Equity, Aimed Specifically At India And Bangladesh.

Women's Education Has A Much Greater Impact [on], For Example, Fertility. Men's Education, If Our Studies Are Correct, Ha[s] Almost No Impact On Fertility. Women's Do. So, By The Way, As A Man, It's Not To The Glory Of Men Specifically That It's Women's Education That Reduces Child Mortality.

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, [but] That Need Not Prevent You From Doing All The Other Equalities That You Want.

To Say That The Whole Of The Industrial Experience Of Europe And America Just Shows The Rewards Of Exploiting The Third World Is A Gross Simplification.