Video Notes Oct 20, 2011

• 45 year old love story
• received an expensive and high class education that almost destroyed him
• went to a village and saw people dying of hunger
• told his mother he wanted to work into a village
• he wanted to give something back, because life had given him so much
• his mother thought he let the family down
• he wanted to start a college only for the poor
• you have to have a skill that you can offer to go to the college
• professional- a combination of confidence and belief
• the college follows Ghandi's principles
• the teacher is the learner, and the learner is the teacher
• barefoot college, built by people who cannot read or write
• fully solar electrified
• food is solar cooked.  illiterate women put together a sophisticated solar cooker
• illiterate dentist
• no water is wasted.  collect rain water
• 60% of children do not go to school because they have to look after animals.  created night schools so that the children can receive and education
• children elect a prime minister