China Had Managed To Reduce Their Fertility

I Attempted To See Famines As Broad "economic" Problems (concentrating On How People Can Buy Food, Or Otherwise Get Entitled To It), Rather Than In Terms Of The Grossly Undifferentiated Picture Of Aggregate Food Supply For The Economy As A Whole.

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.

Education Could Be A Great Vehicle For Gender Equity. It Allows People To See What Your Rights Are By Reading. Quite Often Women, For Example, May Have Rights That They Are Not In The Position To Actually Make Use Of.

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.

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.