Quotes from Sonam Wangchuk

We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.

My journey has mainly been driven by empathy towards people who I thought were suffering.

Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons; make the lessons unforgettable.

The world needs real-world universities, 'doer' universities. We're going to set up one model of it in Ladakh. And if it is successful, we hope it'll have a ripple effect from New Delhi to New York.

I believe that schools of today with all their answers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, above everything else, take us back to the industrial revolution in time, when people thought that nature could be conquered and consumption or production could be unlimited.

I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.

When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar.

There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.