I Remain Instinctively Hostile To Communitarian Philosophy

Famines Occur Under A Colonial Administration, Like The British Raj In India Or For That Matter In Ireland, Or Under Military Dictators In One Country After Another, Like Somalia And Ethiopia, Or In One-party States Like The Soviet Union And China.

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 Very Hard Thing To Do For A First-generation Schoolgoer. Because Not To Have Parents At Home Who Can Help You, Motivate You, Is A Problem Even When The Parents Are In The Abstract Very Keen On Children Being Educated.

To Say That Certainly America Was Very Lucky To Get A Large Amount Of Land, And The Native Indians Were Extremely Unlucky To Have White Men Coming Over Here, Is One Thing. But To Say That The Whole Of The American Prosperity Was Based On Exploiting The Indigenous Population Would Be A Great Mistake.

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 Chatting With Other Kids. It's A Big Impact. One Of The Curious Things Is That Even When - And This We Found From Studies - The Schools Are Doing Pretty Badly In Terms Of Their Education, About Mathematics And Literature And Language, Going To School Transformed People Because I Think The Action Of Schooling, The Activity, Is Very Important.

Globalization Is A Complex Issue, Partly Because Economic Globalization Is Only One Part Of It. Globalization Is Greater Global Closeness, And That Is Cultural, Social, Political, As Well As Economic.