When The Government Is Trying To Penny-pinch

If Jobs Are Important, Education Is Important.

Human Development, As An Approach, Is Concerned With What I Take To Be The Basic Development Idea: Namely, Advancing The Richness Of Human Life, Rather Than The Richness Of The Economy In Which Human Beings Live, Which Is Only A Part Of It.

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.

Education Makes Us The Human Beings We Are. It Has Major Impacts On Economic Development, On Social Equity, Gender Equity. In All Kinds Of Ways, Our Lives Are Transformed By Education And Security. Even If It Had Not One Iota Of Effect [on] Security, It Would Still Remain In My Judgment The Biggest Priority In The World.

Human Life Consists Of Doing Certain Things ... To Take Part In The Life Of The Community; To Be Able To Talk About Subjects That Interest Me And There Freedom Of Speech Comes Into It.