Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.

It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

I have not had any serious non-academic job.