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11 quotes by Bunker Roy

Bunker Roy Roy at Time 100 event, 2010 Born Sanjit Roy 2 August 1945 (1945-08-02) (age 69) Burnpur, present-day West Bengal Nationality Indian Alma mater St. Stephen's College, Delhi Occupation Social activist & founder of BarefootCollege Spouse(s) Aruna Roy (m. 1970) Sanjit "Bunker" Roy (born 2 August 1945) is an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College. He was selected as one of Time...
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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... →

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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.... →

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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 work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor.... →

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In India, I'm always 'Aruna Roy's husband.'

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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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We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

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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... →

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Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if... →

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