There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

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.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.