Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may have rights that they are not in the position to actually make use of.

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.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.