What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

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

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

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

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

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.

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.