Words matter. These are the best Sonam Wangchuk Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.
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.
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.
In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.
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.
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.
A lot of times we hear that nothing good can happen in government schools. The reason nothing can happen is that the children of those who have a voice do not study in them.
It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.
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.
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.
Private schools cannot be the answer to nation’s needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.
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.
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.
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 believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
We should choose simple ways of living… to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.
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.
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.
My journey has mainly been driven by empathy towards people who I thought were suffering.
Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought.
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.
