Kailash Satyarthi – Indian children’s rights champion who has liberated tens of thousands of child labourers and helped shape global education and labour-standards reform.

Kailash Satyarthi – Indian children’s rights champion who has liberated tens of thousands of child labourers and helped shape global education and labour-standards reform.

Malala Yousafzai – Pakistani education activist and youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate who refused to be silenced and became a global voice for girls’ right to learn.

Malala Yousafzai – Pakistani education activist and youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate who refused to be silenced and became a global voice for girls’ right to learn.

Maria Montessori – Italian educator whose child-centred “Montessori Method” transformed early childhood education by emphasising children’s innate potential.

Maria Montessori – Italian educator whose child-centred “Montessori Method” transformed early childhood education by emphasising children’s innate potential.

Enakshi Ganguly – Indian children’s rights activist and co-founder of HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, who has worked with children in conflict and legal systems.

Enakshi Ganguly – Indian children’s rights activist and co-founder of HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, who has worked with children in conflict and legal systems.

Sister Zeph – Pakistani teacher and activist who set up a one-room school for underprivileged girls and won the Global Teacher Prize for empowering children in her region

Sister Zeph – Pakistani teacher and activist who set up a one-room school for underprivileged girls and won the Global Teacher Prize for empowering children in her region

Anita Kaul – Indian civil servant who played a key role in drafting the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, and pioneered joyful-learning reforms in Indian primary education

Anita Kaul – Indian civil servant who played a key role in drafting the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, and pioneered joyful-learning reforms in Indian primary education

Euphemia Lofton Haynes – American educator and the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, who advocated equality in schooling and ended discriminatory tracking of students

Euphemia Lofton Haynes – American educator and the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, who advocated equality in schooling and ended discriminatory tracking of students

Gijubhai Badheka – Indian educationist, inspired by Montessori, who pioneered early childhood schooling in India and introduced play-based learning for children.

Gijubhai Badheka – Indian educationist, inspired by Montessori, who pioneered early childhood schooling in India and introduced play-based learning for children.

Tarabai Modak – Often called the “Montessori Mother of India,” she worked with tribal and rural children and established pre-primary centres that gave access to early education for the underserved.

Tarabai Modak – Often called the “Montessori Mother of India,” she worked with tribal and rural children and established pre-primary centres that gave access to early education for the underserved.

1. Zuriel Oduwole – Young African-American filmmaker and education advocate who, from a very early age, has used media to raise awareness of children’s and girls’ education across Africa and the Caribbean.

1. Zuriel Oduwole – Young African-American filmmaker and education advocate who, from a very early age, has used media to raise awareness of children’s and girls’ education across Africa and the Caribbean.

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