Quotes from Sonam Wangchuk

Not that I did not have any other skills, but I loved teaching students, sharing with them my knowledge in sciences, maths or languages.

People know crowdfunding, but they know it as something where one pays money for a cause or for products and so on. This is something where you contribute, but not money.

Let Ladakh change the world rather than the world change Ladakh.

Many people have uninstalled Chinese apps. So when crores uninstall apps. It will be a message for the Chinese government when they are intruding into India.

We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.

Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.

Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.

When traders will start cancelling orders from China it will send a powerful message to Chinese government that antagonising India will extract a huge price.

I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now, it has to rise to solve the crisis facing the earth and nations have to pay attention to the education of children to save this planet.

Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought.

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

The idea is to freeze the water in the winter and use it in late spring. The conical tower shape ensures that the surface exposed to the sun is minimal, so premature melting is avoided.

Paper knowledge, paper evaluations, paper degrees all too papery and all too theoretical; it has very little that prepares us for real life in the real world.

We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. It is not the time to use and throw this planet and we need to explore deep within more than without. Space exploration should be used to quench human thirst.

I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.

In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.

I always say please live a simple life in the city so that we can lead a simple life in the mountains.

I hope the conduct of Indians can become an example for the rest of the world to follow.

Yes, though trained as an engineer, I shifted to education as I realized that the system needed to be changed; I saw so many of the bright minds caged.

Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.

The Indian government has been taking some lead in several environmental initiatives, like the international solar alliance, many green initiatives in schools, lots of river reservations projects.

Things that work in New York or New Delhi do not work in the mountains. We have to find our own solutions for our problems.

We in the Himalayas have the problem of glaciers melting away and we had to make our own glaciers and I don't consider them proud or great achievement. It is only mainly to adapt to the problems that we have caused in this planet; The real solutions lie elsewhere; maybe people in the big cities of India, China and US can solve it.

Young people in their twenties spend three-four years doing things that are behind the times. We're capturing such people in a classroom for a lecture. We need to reground ourselves and see how evolution has taught us.