A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

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.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if it took a similar interest in education, it could make a difference.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.