Malala Yousafzai Research Paper

A harsh beeping sound right at six a.m. drags you out of your dreams. You fall out of bed, throw something on, and are at out the door within fifteen minutes. You sit through 7 hours worth of classes, muster up the energy to go to two hours of sports practice, then go home and rush through piles of homework. You do this day after day. For many students, these are their first thoughts when they think of education. It is something seen as involuntary and forced, but they do it because it’s part of the cycle of life: high school, college, job. However, what these thousands of students do not see is that their boring days sitting in high school are actually opening the doors of success to them. The sad truth is that the majority of students do

An education gives a person the ability to read and write, this ability allows a person to become confident, knowledgeable of the world and gives them job opportunities they wouldn’t otherwise have. People with these abilities can then teach and inspire others. An excellent example of this is Malala Yousafzai. As a girl in Pakistan, Malala had little rights to an education from the very beginning. Rebecca Rowell, the author of Malala Yousafzai: Education Activist, describes Malala’s life through education. She began fighting for her education by the age of 11. Malala started by writing journals of her everyday journeys and her life under the Taliban. By the age of 16, she was the victim of an assassination attempt by the group that wanted to take away her education. They shot her in the head as she rode her bus on the way to an all-girls school. Malala has made a full recovery and has since been changing the world. She has continued her activist work, given speeches, interviewed for education rights for women and, because of her tragic story, she has provided momentum towards the fight to bring girls a right to an education. Education has taught Malala what is right and because of this, she demands education of others as well. Malala’s fight for an education caused the United Nations to launch a campaign demanding for the education of all children worldwide and Malala and her education eventually led to Pakistan’s first Right to Education Bill. Malala has touched the lives of billions of people around the world through her education. She uses her identity and newfound power as a tool to give children the right to an education that she fought so hard to get herself. Education is more than just a right; it is Malala’s identity. Education shapes so much of who she is, and will do the same to many other young minds like her. She proves that education can change so many