People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.

A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.

We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.