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Bunker Roy Quotes

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 midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world Picture Quote #1

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 have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism Picture Quote #1

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community Picture Quote #1

In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, ‘I’d like to live and work in a village.’ Mother went into a coma Picture Quote #1

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, doctor - all laid out Picture Quote #1

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 any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them Picture Quote #1

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Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world Picture Quote #1

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she’s prime minister in the evening Picture Quote #1

What’s the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman Picture Quote #1

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect and self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum Picture Quote #1

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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 midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world. (Bunker Roy Quotes) 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 have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism. (Bunker Roy Quotes) 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 Quotes) In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, ‘I’d like to live and work in a village.’ Mother went into a coma. (Bunker Roy Quotes) 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, doctor - all laid out. (Bunker Roy Quotes) 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 any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them. (Bunker Roy Quotes) Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world (Bunker Roy Quotes) The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she’s prime minister in the evening (Bunker Roy Quotes) What’s the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman (Bunker Roy Quotes) Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect and self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum (Bunker Roy Quotes)