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

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

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.

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

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].