Belonging To Humanity Is A Great Thing

If You're Dealing With Grappling [with] Problems Of Feeding People, The Biggest Impact In Fertility Reduction Is Girls' Schools. Schooled Girls Make A Bigger Impact On That Than Any Other Factor - Not These Various Regulations [such As] You Have To Have One Child Or That. It Turns Out That None Of These Are Effective.

Education Makes Human Beings More Articulate. It Transforms People. You Can Think Differently About The World. It Makes It Possible For You To Get Jobs. It Makes A Dramatic Difference. It Generates A Social Equity That We Need.

It Is Also Very Engaging - And A Delight - To Go Back To Bangladesh As Often As I Can, Which Is Not Only My Old Home, But Also Where Some Of My Closest Friends And Collaborators Live And Work.

[globalization] Has Enriched The World Scientifically And Culturally And Benefited Many People Economically As Well.

The Increasing Tendency Towards Seeing People In Terms Of One Dominant ‘identity’ (‘this Is Your Duty As An American’, ‘you Must Commit These Acts As A Muslim’, Or ‘as A Chinese You Should Give Priority To This National Engagement’) Is Not Only An Imposition Of An External And Arbitrary Priority, But Also The Denial Of An Important Liberty Of A Person Who Can Decide On Their Respective Loyalties To Different Groups (to All Of Which He Or She Belongs).