Bunker Roy
Bunker Roy
Sanjit "Bunker" Royis an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College. He was selected as one of Time 100's 100 most influential personalities in 2010 for his work in educating illiterate and semi literate rural Indians...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 August 1945
CountryIndia
barefoot community dignity offer provide service skill work
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.
barefoot crazy matter money start whatever work
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 and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.
backbone countries man maybe noticed outside solve wherever white
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.
self-confidence opportunity giving
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.
teacher motivation inspiration
[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
motivation inspiration india
I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
morning motivation inspiration
The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.
jobs six-months village
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 that she can solar-electrify a village
motivation husband inspiration
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.'