Shaheen Mistry is the CEO of teach for india.
She started 19 years ago, by walking into the Mumbai slums and expressing her teach underprivileged students. She started an NGO Akansha 19 years ago. Her aim was to eliminate inequity in education and make it inclusive.
She started with 15 children in one centre and now it has grown to 3,500 children across Mumbai and pune over 19 years.
She believes that the key issue of entrepreneurship is that in todays age of information, it is innovation and looking at things through a different lens that matters. Technology has tremendous scope and it must be harnassed to bring about innovation.
She believes that no system of education in the world is ideal. A single teacher cannot change the system unless he/she has sufficient backing from leaders, policymakers , visionaries and the media.
This class salutes Shaheen Mistry and her entrepreneurial zeal.
Lesson for the day:
Technology and education can be a powerful for change agents. The present day educational systems produces educated illiterates. Its high time we did something to change. we have started semantics keeping this in mind- It time to think be critical thinkers.i.e. able to innovate, imagine and implement things effectively.
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