45 year old love story
-higher education almost destroyed him
-squash champion
- went on a service learning project- experienced starvation, death, and poverty
- now wants to help the cause, giving up all of his opportunities
-letting down the family by giving this up
- ended up learning more with in this experience
-they assumed something should be wrong due to the fact that he chose this village
- would like to start a college only for the poor- education is the key to moving up out of poverty
- barefoot college- redefined professionalism
- must have a defined set of skills
- knowledge and skills you have must be universal
- life style of Ghandi, no written contracts, no more than $100 a month, you sleep on the floor
- doesnt matter if you fail
- teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher
-1986 was the first built college 1.50 a square foot
- built by uneducated contractors
- no hope for the soil too rocky dry, the village man said other wise
- women water proofed
- purely solar powered, with 8 years of primary schooling
- food is solar cooked- the women created a an elaborate solar cooker, completely uneducation
- collecting water from the roof,
-60% of kids have to work during the day keeping them from their education= created a night school
- teaching things to help them survive in the real world
- election every 4 years, prime minister 12 years old... voted by 4-6 years old
- they show pride in what they have instead of harping on what they don't have.
here vs. there
expected to go to college where as they are not.
experienceing what they don't have.
passing on experiences to others, not exactly defined as a traditional perfessional
school built around kids, not kids forming to the school
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