Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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

The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.

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.