I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

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.

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.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

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.'

Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.