We watched a video featuring Bunker Roy on how he went from a "a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India" to becoming inspired to start a "Barefoot College" for the rural poor living on less than one dollar a day. Roy says:

I was exposed to the most extraordinary knowledge and skills that very poor people have, which are never brought into the mainstream — which is never identified, respected, applied on a large scale. And I thought I'd start a Barefoot College — college only for the poor. What the poor thought was important would be reflected in the college.

One interesting observation from our discussion: Roy's path of leaving a privileged higher education to discover the truth of suffering has parallels in the life of the Buddha.