Quotes by Sonam Wangchuk - Page 1

Let Ladakh change the world rather than the world change Ladakh.
Sonam Wangchuk /
Change The World
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Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought.
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Drought
Flash
Followed
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Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons; make the lessons unforgettable.
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Blame
Lessons
Unforgettable
Child
Make
Forgetting
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I hope the conduct of Indians can become an example for the rest of the world to follow.
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Example
Conduct
Hope World Rest
Rest
Follow
Indians
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My journey has mainly been driven by empathy towards people who I thought were suffering.
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Driven
My Journey
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I always say please live a simple life in the city so that we can lead a simple life in the mountains.
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Please
Simple
Simple Life
Life City Live
City
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I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
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Healing
Education Believe I Believe
Crises
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Sports stars connect with youth. So, Viacheslav 'Slava' Fetisov's coming to Ladakh was a natural thing.
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Sports
Stars
Youth
Connect
Natural Thing
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Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.
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Education
Linked
Needs
Situation
Count
Different Parts
Ground
Parts
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It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.
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Engage
Forcing
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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.
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New York
Delhi
Solutions
York
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Not that I did not have any other skills, but I loved teaching students, sharing with them my knowledge in sciences, maths or languages.
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Languages
Maths
Sciences
Sharing
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I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.
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Lifestyle
Government People Nothing
Update
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Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.
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Consumption
Contentment
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In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.
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Consumption
Relevant
In The Past
Production
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We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.
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Adopting
Harmony
Natural
Natural Resources
Resources
Should
Simple
Living
Choose
Technologies
Using
Ways
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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.
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Caged
Bright
Shifted
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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.
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Engineering
Expenses
Institute
Support
Studying
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Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.
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Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Examples
Private Schools
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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.
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Apps
Chinese
Chinese Government
Government People Will
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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.
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China
Chinese Government
Powerful
Extract
Orders
Price
Send
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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.
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Knowledge
Degrees
Paper
Real Life
Theoretical
Life World Real
Life Knowledge World
Prepares
The Real World
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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.
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Artificial
Glaciers
Ice
Mud
Buildings
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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.
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Products
Money People Know
Money Where People
Cause
Contribute
Pays
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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.
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Study
Schools
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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.
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Designed
Facing
Grown-Ups
Scribble
Shoulder
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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.
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Climbing
Fields
Jumping
Seeds
Sowing
Village
Animals
Learnt
River
Schools
Trees
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The idea is to freeze the water in the winter and use it in late spring. The conical tower shape ensures that the surface exposed to the sun is minimal, so premature melting is avoided.
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Avoided
Exposed
Freeze
Late
Melting
Premature
Spring
Sun
Water
Winter
Idea
Minimal
Shape
Tower
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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.
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Environmental
Green
Indian
International
Projects
Reservations
Alliance
Lots
Initiatives
River
Schools
Several
Solar
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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.
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New York
Delhi
Needs
Ripple
Successful
Doer
Set
Effect
Model
Universities
York
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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.
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Classroom
Taught
Twenties
People Doing See
Behind
Capturing
People Doing Young
Spend
Lecture
Young People
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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.
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Exploration
Healed
Quench
Space Exploration
Thirst
Deserts
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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.
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Livelihood
Pay Attention
Captive
Classrooms
Earlier
Facing
Teenagers
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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.
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Science
Technology
Answers
Consumption
Engineering
Industrial Revolution
Revolution
Today
Unlimited
Above
Back
Nature Time Science
Conquered
Could
Else
Everything Else
Nature Science Time
Industrial
Production
Schools
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We in the Himalayas have the problem of glaciers melting away and we had to make our own glaciers and I don't consider them proud or great achievement. It is only mainly to adapt to the problems that we have caused in this planet; The real solutions lie elsewhere; maybe people in the big cities of India, China and US can solve it.
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Achievement
Big Cities
China
Cities
Elsewhere
Glaciers
Great Achievement
Melting
Problem
Proud
Real
Solutions
Caused
Adapt
Away
Consider
Lie
Mainly
Maybe
Planet
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