"'I can't' . . . It's a subversive message that on a daily basis our children get from the 'system.' It's about the subtle-explicit instructions regarding their day-to-day learning when they are told to do 'as instructed,' with no room for creativity, choice, opinions."

Ashoka is the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs. In 2008, the pioneering educator Kiran became one of the nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows ~ global innovation leaders whose work the organization supports + promotes.

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A teacher at Kiran's school literally hands kids the mic. Riverside specializing in giving children a voice in their own education + in the world around them. Students have led the way in making their city of Ahmedabad kid-friendly and spend 40% of education hours outside the classroom.

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