The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

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

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.

Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.

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

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.