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
Bunker Roy quotes about
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.'
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
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.
television world today
What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.
motivation inspiration india
I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
people world solutions
Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.
teacher motivation inspiration
[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
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.
almost education expensive laid teacher
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.
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.
came changed death dying famine life mother people saw work worst
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.
We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.