This is an IHeart podcast.

I'm Maeve Higgins and this is Solvable, interviews with the world's most innovative thinkers working to solve the world's biggest problems.

So my solvable is to redefine education and to create curricula, pedagogy and school cultures,

which will enable children to think and behave like democratic citizens and not just be looking at

and technical education for the labour force.

So that in the next 10 or 15 years, all the children of the world actually, but let's say just India,

can learn to be educated to be good democratic citizens.

That is Dr. Urwashi Sani, a renowned educator and social entrepreneur. She's the founder and CEO of Study Hall Educational Foundation.

Today's Salvable is about social justice.

It's about education that teaches us to think critically and become more

engaged citizens. As you'll hear, all of these things are connected and they apply to every

one of us wherever we live. Dr. Sani's focus is in India. She grew up there and works there today.

She believes that radically redefining education

will enable young people to solve

some of our most intractable problems,

gender inequality, class inequality,

and extreme poverty.

She is really thinking big.

Across India, almost 40% of girls

that are between 15 and 18 years old drop out of school and college.

Most of them do so not because they get a job, but because they're forced to take on household chores or they have to start begging.

Child marriage is a major force taking girls out at school too.

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