People's Identities As Indians, As Asians, Or

But The Idea That I Should Be A Teacher And A Researcher Of Some Sort Did Not Vary Over The Years.

I Think The Whole Progress Over The Last Two Or Three Millennia Has Been Entirely Dependent On Ideas And Techniques And Commodities And People Moving From One Part Of The World To Another. It Seems Difficult To Take An Anti-globalization View If One Takes Globalization Properly In Its Full Sense.

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.

When The Government Is Trying To Penny-pinch And, At The Same Time, Trying To Keep A Defense Expenditure And So Forth, Which Are Regarded As Quote Unquote Essential, The Education Is Regarded Inessential.

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.