Bunker Roy Quotes

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• [The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
• I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
• We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute…
• The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.
• What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.
• Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show…
• Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will…
• Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.
• I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher,…
• Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional…
• 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. You…
• School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
• We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.
• The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the…

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