Sonam Wangchuk

The Indian government has been taking some lead in several environmental initiatives, like the international solar alliance, many green initiatives in schools,…

— Sonam Wangchuk

There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields,…

— Sonam Wangchuk

When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National…

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.

— Sonam Wangchuk

Yes, though trained as an engineer, I shifted to education as I realized that the system needed to be changed; I saw…

— Sonam Wangchuk

A lot of times we hear that nothing good can happen in government schools. The reason nothing can happen is that the…

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

I believe that schools of today with all their answers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, above everything else, take us back…

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

We in the Himalayas have the problem of glaciers melting away and we had to make our own glaciers and I don't…

— Sonam Wangchuk

We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. It is…

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

Sports stars connect with youth. So, Viacheslav 'Slava' Fetisov's coming to Ladakh was a natural thing.

— Sonam Wangchuk

The idea is to freeze the water in the winter and use it in late spring. The conical tower shape ensures that…

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

Paper knowledge, paper evaluations, paper degrees all too papery and all too theoretical; it has very little that prepares us for real…

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

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

— Sonam Wangchuk

I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now,…

— Sonam Wangchuk