Malala personifies the Lawrence Summers quote, “Educating girls may be the single highest-return investment available in the developing world.” This book—dramatically telling the story of how she was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school—displays a great hope for the future: the transformative consequences of permitting and encouraging young-girl schooling. Time and again, this simple process has decreased infant mortality, raised per casita income, decreased health problems, increased economic growth, and demonstrated how to end world poverty. Malala’s moving story of dealing with a to a bullet in the head that disfigured her beyond recognition brought her to speak before the United Nations, to becoming the “daughter of her nation,” and an inspiration to all of us for dealing with the problems and suffering in our lives rather than letting them sink us into depression, aggression, and cowardice.
“But when you see death, things change. It doesn’t matter if you can’t smile or blink properly”
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39. Oneness
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“extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education… of women.”
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“extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education… of women”
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“I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.”
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“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”
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“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
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“We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”
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“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”
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