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 Read Quote
I hope the conduct of Indians can become an example for the rest of the world to follow. Sonam Wangchuk Read Quote
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. Sonam Wangchuk Read Quote
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. Sonam Wangchuk Read Quote
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. Sonam Wangchuk Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Sports stars connect with youth. So, Viacheslav ‘Slava’ Fetisov’s coming to Ladakh was a natural thing. Sonam Wangchuk Read Quote
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. Sonam Wangchuk Read Quote
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 Read Quote
