One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.

[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.

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

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.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute