"We went to Ladakh ... and we asked……" — Bunker Roy
"We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'"
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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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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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We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.
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