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From the Ted Talk by Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

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So the elders gave me some very sound and profound advice. They said, "Please, don't bnirg anyone with a degree and qualification into your college." So it's the only college in India where, if you should have a Ph.D. or a Master's, you are disqualified to come. You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hdnas. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a srevcie to the community. So we started the broeofat College, and we rfedenied professionalism.

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So the elders gave me some very sound and profound advice. They said, "Please, don't _____ anyone with a degree and qualification into your college." So it's the only college in India where, if you should have a Ph.D. or a Master's, you are disqualified to come. You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your _____. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a _______ to the community. So we started the ________ College, and we _________ professionalism.

Solution

  1. bring
  2. hands
  3. redefined
  4. service
  5. barefoot

Original Text

So the elders gave me some very sound and profound advice. They said, "Please, don't bring anyone with a degree and qualification into your college." So it's the only college in India where, if you should have a Ph.D. or a Master's, you are disqualified to come. You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism.

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