The barefoot college

ktn · Post by **ktn** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:51 pm

Check this out.
Touches upon a lot of issues we have been discussing here - the meaning of education, water harvesting, living off grid, learning skills, solving real problems:

http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy.html
A pictorial BBC did on the college:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/p ... html/1.stm
And the college's site itself:

http://www.barefootcollege.org

Surio · Post by **Surio** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:57 am

@KTN,

Thanks. I have heard of this movement before from others, didn't know there was a TED talk to go with it.
Prolonged exposure to ERE comments have made me a compulsive Comments reader to gain more insight (Thank you ye all, regular and faithful ;-]). Must make a mental note to myself to "Move along, nothing new here" when visiting other sites! I was chuckling at the comments.... Maslow's Hammer, collision of Worldviews, claims of sexism, thinly veiled jealousy.... Ha!
"Positivism" seems to be the *only* "acceptable" system in the majority's eyes nowadays!

m741 · Post by **m741** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:20 pm

@Surio - I hope we haven't taught you to read Youtube comments.

ktn · Post by **ktn** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:39 pm

@Surio - I do my best to not read comments on non-sane places like yahoo, youtube, etc. etc.. and ted.com.
Your comments made me take a peek. Yikes. I take it Mr. Howard Ashman wrote one of those World Bank reports that got turned into a puppet.

Dragline · Post by **Dragline** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:49 pm

The more widely-read the board, the less useful the comments. You should read the drivel on Marketwatch.
You can call that "Dragline's law", but I'm sure I'm not the first to make that observation.

Surio · Post by **Surio** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:41 pm

@m741,

Ha Ha... I will be checking into rehab before something so drastic happens!
@ktn,

Thanks for going through the same pain for my sake -- Misery(#) loves company

(#) that would be me in this case
It was a very surreal 15 minutes for me at the Comments section before I snapped out of it and closing the browser window!
@Dragline,

It is a very good observation. I do not go to widely read bulletin boards; I am a participant of the fringe/counterculture --- just like you all

. So the idea doesn't consciously remain in the foreground when I drop in unexpected into one of these popular bulletin boards!

Oh well! One lives and learns

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