I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.
I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality.
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.
On being invited to the Jaipur Festival, I was naturally nervous about attempting an opening address to such an elite gathering.
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent.
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan, they determined they were going in that direction. In 20 years' time, they had transformed themselves. So when people go on saying that it's all because of perennial culture, which you cannot change, that's not the way the South Korean economy was viewed before the war ended. But again within 30 years, people went on saying there's an ancient culture in Korea that has been pro-education, which is true.
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.
The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute.
The imposing tower of misery which today rests on the heart of India has its sole foundation in the absence of education.
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