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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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Buildings
#Children
#Grow
#Try
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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Changed
#Education
#System
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#Yes
I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Believe
#Education
#I Believe That
Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Ground
#Life
#Situation
#Take
Our young ones have always been shoulder to shoulder with grown-ups, learning on the job in the field, facing challenges. They were never designed to sit and listen or scribble.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Challenges
#Learning
#Never
#Sit
#Young
My journey has mainly been driven by empathy towards people who I thought were suffering.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Empathy
#Journey
#People
#Suffering
#Who
We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Harmony
#Live
#Living
#Nature
#Simple
Let Ladakh change the world rather than the world change Ladakh.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Change The World
#Change
#Rather
#World
Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Government
#Nation
#Needs
#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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Exploration
#Human
#Space
#Time
It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Forcing
#Important
#Something
I always say please live a simple life in the city so that we can lead a simple life in the mountains.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Life
#Live
#Simple Life
#Simple
I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Lifestyle
#Nothing
#People
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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Knowledge
#Life
#Real Life
#Real
#Us
#World
Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons; make the lessons unforgettable.
- Sonam Wangchuk
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#Forgetting
#Lessons
#Make
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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Nature
#Science
#Technology
#Time
#Today
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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Environmental
#Government
#Green
#River
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.
- Sonam Wangchuk
#Children
#Earth
#Education
#Listening
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