Economics, As It Has Emerged, Can Be

Thailand's Economic Development Was Driven By Educational Expansion. That Has Been A Very Dramatic Factor, And South Asia Had Been Pretty Miserable In Not Learning From That Experience.

I Guess Some Of The Most Delightful Moments Of My Teenage Years Were When I Was Trying Not Just To Educate Myself But Trying To Educate Others. And I Could See How The Lives Of Children Could Be Transformed In That.

Sometimes One Makes A Distinction Between Urgency And Importance. And While Disasters Are Urgent, The Basically Most Important Thing Is Education. And That's What Gives It Ultimately Urgency Too, Because Unless You Do It Now, This Important Thing Gets Again And Again Postponed.

To Say That Certainly America Was Very Lucky To Get A Large Amount Of Land, And The Native Indians Were Extremely Unlucky To Have White Men Coming Over Here, Is One Thing. But To Say That The Whole Of The American Prosperity Was Based On Exploiting The Indigenous Population Would Be A Great Mistake.

To Say That The Whole Of The Industrial Experience Of Europe And America Just Shows The Rewards Of Exploiting The Third World Is A Gross Simplification.