Name: 【TED】Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement (Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement)
Uploaded: 2013-03-28T12:05:01.000Z
Duration: 19 min 8 s
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Then, I don't look it, but I was the Indian national squash champion

I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India,

people dying of hunger, for the first time.

"I'd like to live and work in a village."

The whole world is laid out for you, the best jobs are laid out for you,

and you want to go and work in a village?

I mean, is there something wrong with you?"

You went to the most expensive school and college in India,

and you want to dig wells for five years?"

She didn't speak to me for a very long time,

because she thought I'd let my family down.

I was exposed to the most extraordinary knowledge and skills

which are never brought into the mainstream --

And I thought I'd start a Barefoot College --

I went to this village for the first time.

and said, "Are you running from the police?"

"You didn't get a government job?" I said, "No."

makes you look at Paris and New Delhi and Zurich;

Is there something wrong with you you're not telling us?"

I said, "No, I want to actually start a college

What the poor thought was important would be reflected in the college."

So the elders gave me some very sound and profound advice.

don't bring anyone with a degree and qualification

where, if you should have a Ph.D. or a Master's,

You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout

You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community

A traditional bone setter is a professional.

These are professionals all over the world.

You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.

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【TED】Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement (Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement)

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