You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world. — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat,… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman. — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me. — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient. — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands.… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
