Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge.

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

There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

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

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.