"The Barefoot College is supposed to be a……" — Bunker Roy
"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 college."
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14 Quotes by Bunker Roy
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[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
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I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
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We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And…
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The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in…
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What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.
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Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer…
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Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect…
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Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.
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I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set…
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Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner…
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You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to…
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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the…
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so…
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his…
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing…
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
— Linda Hogan
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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a…
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to…
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in…
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in…
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and…
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